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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:38:42 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Using signals to unblock calls to msgrcv() in a multi-threaded process (Cygwin v1.7.33)
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On Jan 19 08:29, SCOTT Damien wrote:
> I have a multi-threaded process running under Cygwin that receives
> messages from several IPC message queues (built using Cygwin's gcc,
> version 4.8.3).=C2=A0 The listener for each queue runs in its own thread,
> each of which is created from the main thread.=C2=A0 Each listener is usi=
ng
> a blocking call to msgrcv().=C2=A0 I want the main thread to be able to u=
se
> pthread_kill() to send a SIGUSR1 signal to each listening thread to
> cause it to abandon its call to msgrcv() and then exit.=C2=A0=20
>=20
> My approach has been to create a signal mask containing just SIGUSR1
> and associate this with a signal handler (although the signal handler
> contains no functionality, since all I need is for the blocking call
> to msgrcv() to be abandoned).=C2=A0 I initially set the signal mask to
> block in the main thread, which should then be inherited by each of
> the created listening threads.=C2=A0 I only unblock the signal mask around
> the call to msgrcv() in each listening thread.
>=20
> I have included a simplified version of my code below.=C2=A0 I usually
> don't see any evidence of the SIGUSR1 signal being received by either
> of the listener threads.=C2=A0 Occasionally the first thread unblocks as
> expected but I have never seen both threads unblock.=C2=A0 If I change my
> code so that there is only a single listener thread, then everything
> works correctly every time.=C2=A0 Changing the msgrcv() call to a sleep
> call also allows unblocking to occur correctly.=C2=A0 Note that this
> simplified code does not include removal of the created queues (since
> it never manages to exit anyway) so I manually remove these after each
> run using the ipcrm command.
>=20
> Example output:
>=20
> Running thread 2 with queue Id =3D 1441792
> Running thread 1 with queue Id =3D 1179649
> About to kill thread 1
>=20
> Is there an issue with the Cygwin implementation of signal handling,
> or is there a problem with my code?=C2=A0 Any help would be much
> appreciated.

It's an issue with the Cygwin code, probably.  The msgrcv code ultimately
hangs in a blocking ReadFile call on a named pipe, and this call is
non-interruptible.  Changing that requires a bigger change in Cygwin
which will take time.

For the time being, would it be much of a problem for you to convert
your stuff to POSIX message queues(*)?  These don't require running
cygserver, and they are supposed not to suffer from this problem.
Fixing them in case of a bug is much easier as well.


Corinna

(*) http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/mqueue.h.html

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