rtems_task_delete

[Thomas Doerfler]

Hi,

it is always the responsibility of the application to free any resources
associated with a certain task. Deleting a task from the outside
(asynchronously to its internal state) is dangerous. It might make more
sense to ask the task to delete itself (sending it a signal or an
event), then this task can decide when to do the actual deletion and it
can make sure that any resources are returned/cleaned up.

Please note that this is also the case for Unix tasks: it is good
practice for a task to install a signal handler, which captures signals
like "kill". When such a signal arrives, the task can e.g. delete any
temporary files, tore its own state etc.

wkr,
Thomas.

WuHao schrieb:
> Hi:
> The rtems_task_delete routine does some deletions and free
> actions,however not include semaphore releases.When we delete a thread
> which is holding some semaphores/mutexes,it may cause problem in my
> opinion.Does the kernel do the semaphore releases in other place or not
> do that at all?
> 
> Thanks,
> WuHao
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