Howto cancel a blocked termios read request

Wolfram Wadepohl Wolfram.Wadepohl at ek-automation.com
Wed May 9 05:33:03 UTC 2007


Sounds good, Eric. This call will introduce many lines to termios; a couple 
of lines ahould be enough.

I will implement this support in the next few days and we can discuss 
afterwards about putting it in or not.


Eric Norum schrieb:
> At the expense of yet more bloat in termios.c perhaps the best thing  
> would be to add support for an FIOCANCEL ioctl request (like vxWorks  
> provides):
> 
>         ioctl(fd, FIOCANCEL, NULL);
> 
> Might be a addition to the network stack, too.
> 
> On May 8, 2007, at 6:19 AM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 
>> Wolfram Wadepohl wrote:
>>
>>> i need to cancel a blocked termios read request.
>>>
>>> the request blocks at the tty->rawInBuf.Semaphore in  fillBufferQueue():
>>>
>>> ...
>>>     /*
>>>      * Wait for characters
>>>      */
>>>     if ( wait ) {
>>>         sc = rtems_semaphore_obtain (tty->rawInBuf.Semaphore,
>>>             tty->rawInBufSemaphoreOptions,
>>>             timeout);
>>>         if (sc != RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL)
>>>             break;
>>>     }
>>> ...
>>>
>>> using ioctl to set c_cc[VMIN] = c_cc[VTIME] = 0 does not help,  because
>>> it changes only tty->rawInBufSemaphoreOptions, which will be in  effect
>>> for the *next* call to rtems_semaphore_obtain().
>>>
>>> should we put an extra rtems_semaphore_release() call in the code,
>>> when we set tty->rawInBufSemaphoreOptions to RTEMS_NO_WAIT (line 571)
>>> in case of c_cc[VMIN] = c_cc[VTIME] = 0?
>>>
>>> any other suggestions to cancel a blocked read?
>>
>> Can that semaphore be flushed?  I don't know what the API would be to
>> the user but that should
>> end up returning not satisfied.
>>
>> It would also allow it to be canceled on a signal.
>>
>> --joel
>>
>>> thanks.
>>>
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