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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:11:44 +0100
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Subject: Re: pthread_mutex_lock doesn't interrupt
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On 12 July 2010 17:56, James Cotton wrote:
> Hello, I've been trying to get the FreeRTOS Posix simulator to run on
> Cygwin and have run into a few bugs in the signal handling/pthread
> libraries and have isolated test cases
>
> I believe when pthread_mutex_lock receives an interrupt it should run
> it then resume trying to get a lock

Have you got chapter and verse from the POSIX standard on that? By
'interrupt' do you mean SIGINT or any signal? Is it possible that the
signal is just being deferred and then subsumed by later signals?

Andy

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