[fpc-devel] Two small patchs to fix errors when building under BeOS/Haiku

[Olivier Coursière]

In fact, threading is not yet supposed to work under BeOS. It is just a 
quick fix  to compile. A native BeOS threading implementation would be 
great as it is one key point under BeOS. But i am not yet there. Haiku 
has a better posix layer, so cthreads could be an option. But i haven't 
tried this yet.

Olivier
 
Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
> On 30 Mar 2008, at 23:08, Olivier Coursière wrote:
>> - one fix a problem in rtl/beos/tthread.inc 
>> (rtl_beos_tthread.inc_30_03_2008.diff)
>
> You may want to look at cSemaphorePost in rtl/unix/cthreads.pp in the 
> case that has_sem_init and has_sem_open are *not* defined. It uses 
> this in that case:
>
> procedure cSemaphorePost(const FSem: Pointer);
> var
>   writeres: cint;
>   err: cint;
>   b : byte;
> begin
>   b:=0;
>   repeat
>     writeres:=fpwrite(PFilDes(FSem)^[1], b, 1);
>     err:=fpgeterrno;
>   until (writeres<>-1) or ((err<>ESysEINTR) and (err<>ESysEAgain));
> end;
>
> The reason is that (on generic unixes at least) the write can be 
> interrupted for varying reasons, so you have to keep trying until it 
> either succeeds, or terminates with a real error. The same situation 
> may exist on Haiku. You have to do things similarly when reading from 
> the pipe. Also, if Kaiku has sem_init/sem_destroy or 
> sem_open/sem_close, you can use the semaphore implementation for those 
> also from cthreads.
>
>
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