[En-Nut-Discussion] Asynchronous signals - waking up blocked threads

[Ralph Mason]

In my applications each worker thread waits on a Message Queue.  When a 
configuration change happens a notification is broadcast to all the 
message queues.

Ralph


> I am in need for a mechanism to inform blocked threads about changes 
> to configuration data. One example is the configuration change of the 
> port number of a Telnet server. In the case of a port number change, 
> the server has to shut-down and restarted to listen on the new TCP port.
>
> In the POSIX world one can use a signal to unblock a process from 
> blocking functions like accept, read or sleep.
>
> Is there anything similar available in Nut/OS? If not would this be a 
> desirable feature and how could it be implemented?
>
> Henrik
> http://www.proconx.com
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