Re: epicsEventSignal() question

[Henrique Almeida <hdante.lnls@gmail.com>]

 Andrew, there's an implementation of pthread_cond_broadcast from Wind
River in the link below. It looks like it's from 2002, so a newer
version might be available.

http://read.pudn.com/downloads58/sourcecode/embed/205887/src/posix/pthreadLib.c__.htm


2016-06-07 13:06 GMT-03:00 Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>:
> Hi Henrique,
>
> On 06/07/2016 08:02 AM, Henrique Almeida wrote:
>> How much compatibility does VxWorks has with POSIX threads and the
>> POSIX API in general ?
>
> There is a VxWorks implementation of the Posix threads API, they call it
> pthreadLib and it claims to be "an implementation of POSIX 1003.1c
> threads for VxWorks". EPICS doesn't use it because our VxWorks code
> pre-dated that library, we had been using the native real-time APIs for
> a long time before it came out.
>
> I guess that might be an interesting path for replacing the UP (single
> CPU) OS-dependent interface that we currently have for VxWorks for
> anyone who wants to use an SMP version of VxWorks.
>
> - Andrew
>
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