Changeset 436 for trunk/kernel/syscalls/syscalls.h

Timestamp:

Mar 7, 2018, 9:02:03 AM (6 years ago)

Author:

alain

Message:

1) improve the threads and process destruction mechanism.
2) introduce FIFOs in the soclib_tty driver.

File:

• trunk/kernel/syscalls/syscalls.h (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/kernel/syscalls/syscalls.h

@@ -100 +100 @@
 /****************************************************************************************** 
  * [5] This function requests a target thread identified by its <trdid> argument
- * to be cancelled. Depending on killer thread and target thread location, it calls
- * the thread_kil() function or the rpc_thread_kill_client() function to do the work.
- * It actually set the THREAD_SIG_KILL signal, set the THREAD_BLOCKED_GLOBAL bit in the
- * target thread descriptor and return.
+ * to be cancelled. It calls the thread_kill() function to block the target thread
+ * on the THREAD_BLOCKED_GLOBAL condition, and to set the THREAD_FLAG_REQ_DELETE.
  * The thread will be detached from its process, and the memory allocated to the thread
- * descriptor will be released later by the scheduler.
+ * descriptor will be released by the scheduler at the next scheduling point.
  ******************************************************************************************
  * @ trdid   : thread identifier.