[fpc-devel] CSuspendThread/CResumeThread

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Jonas Maebe wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone see a problem with the following CSuspendThread/CResumeThread
> implementations?
> 
>  function  CSuspendThread (threadHandle : TThreadID) : dword;
>    begin
>      result := pthread_kill(threadHandle,SIGSTOP);
>    end;
> 
> 
>  function  CResumeThread  (threadHandle : TThreadID) : dword;
>    begin
>      result := pthread_kill(threadHandle,SIGCONT);
>    end;
> 
> 
> Those routines are currently empty, and called for *bsd/Darwin in case you try
> to tthread.suspend one thread from inside another one. FWIW, I guess Linux
> should be changed to also use the above (it currently uses the regular kill,
> which may have unintended side effects with NPTL).

I think this is OK.

Michael.