Getting the execution state of a task

Tue Jul 2 13:20:33 UTC 2013

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Mohammed Khoory <mkhoory at eiast.ae> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any possible way to obtain the state of a task ID? i.e. whether
> it's dormant, ready, executing, blocked, suspended, or deleted?
>
With a debugger yes.

> I do know there is a way to determine whether a task is suspended, and that
> is by using rtems_task_is_suspended, but does that also include tasks that
> are blocked?
>
No, blocked is different from suspended. From inside RTEMS there is
_States_Is_blocked, but this is not available from the application
layer. You may propose to add an rtems_task_is_blocked(), patches
welcomed at rtems-devel mailing list.

> Regards,
> Mohammed Khoory
>
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