Changeset 583 for trunk/kernel/kern/thread.h

Timestamp:

Nov 1, 2018, 12:10:42 PM (5 years ago)

Author:

alain

Message:

Improve signals.

File:

• trunk/kernel/kern/thread.h (modified) (3 diffs)

trunk/kernel/kern/thread.h

@@ -72 +72 @@
 #define THREAD_FLAG_JOIN_DONE    0x0002  /*! Parent thread made a join request        */
 #define THREAD_FLAG_KILL_DONE    0x0004  /*! This thread received a kill request      */
-#define THREAD_FLAG_SCHED        0x0008  /*! Scheduling required for this thread      */
 #define THREAD_FLAG_REQ_ACK      0x0010  /*! Acknowledge required from scheduler      */
 #define THREAD_FLAG_REQ_DELETE   0x0020  /*! Destruction required from scheduler      */
@@ -334 +333 @@
  * is marked for delete. This include the thread descriptor itself, the associated 
  * CPU and FPU context, and the physical memory allocated for an user thread local stack.
- * The destroyed thread is removed from the local process th_tbl[] array, and returns 
- * true when the destroyed thread was the last thread registered in process.
  ***************************************************************************************
  * @ thread  : pointer on the thread descriptor to release.
  * @ return true, if the thread was the last registerd thread in local process.
  **************************************************************************************/
-bool_t thread_destroy( thread_t * thread );
+void thread_destroy( thread_t * thread );
 
 /***************************************************************************************
@@ -390 +387 @@
  * to asynchronously delete the target thread, at the next scheduling point. 
  * The calling thread can run in any cluster, as it uses remote accesses, but
- * the target thread cannot be the main thread of the process identified by the <pid>,
- * because the main thread must be deleted by the parent process argument.
+ * the target thread cannot be the main thread of the process identified by the <pid>
+ * argument, because the main thread must be deleted by the parent process argument.
  * If the target thread is running in "attached" mode, and the <is_forced> argument
  * is false, this function implements the required sychronisation with the joining 
- * thread, blocking the calling thread until the pthread_join() syscall is executed.
+ * thread, blocking the killer thread until the pthread_join() syscall is executed
+ * by the joining thread.
  ***************************************************************************************
  * @ thread_xp   : extended pointer on the target thread.