[En-Nut-Discussion] Restart secific thread

[Lorenzo Lombardo]

You can lunch an event with NutEventPost() in any point of the program. The 
thread will begin to run as soon as you use NutThreadYield() or a function 
that wait for something (eg reading from devices or waiting for other 
events).

Lorenzo Lombardo
Software Developer
SBN SpA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Petr Odlozil" <zip357 at centrum.cz>
To: "Ethernut User Chat (English)" <en-nut-discussion at egnite.de>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: [En-Nut-Discussion] Restart secific thread


>I was thinking how to restart a thread externally. For example when I 
>detect that the thread hangs. I experienced some so far inexplicible hang 
>of a thread on NutAccept()..
> I am able to detect it by timer. The solution is to restart whole system, 
> but other threads are running fine and there is someting in Memory I don't 
> want to loose with complete restart.
>
> I mean someting like NutThreadExit()
>
> Best Regards
>
> Petr
>
> Lorenzo Lombardo napsal(a):
>> Hi,
>> if your thread reach the end, there's no way to restart it (as far as I 
>> know). You can recreate it, but this will mess up a few things 
>> considering that the resources of the previous thread are not freed.
>> I use this code to lunch the thread every time I want:
>>
>> First declare an handle:
>>
>> HANDLE startExample;
>>
>> Then here's the thread:
>>
>> THREAD (example, arg)
>> {
>>    while(1)
>>    {
>>        // wait for the event to be posted
>>        NutEventWait(&startExample, NUT_WAIT_INFINITE);
>>
>>        <code>
>>
>>    }
>> }
>>
>> When you want to lunch the thread, call:
>>
>> NutEventPost(&startExample);
>>
>> This work fine for me. If anyone have a better solution, he's welcome.
>>
>> Regards,
>>    Lorenzo
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Petr Odlozil" <zip357 at centrum.cz>
>> To: <En-Nut-Discussion at egnite.de>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 8:53 AM
>> Subject: [En-Nut-Discussion] Restart secific thread
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is there a way how to restart specific thread in NutOs ?
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>>
>>> Petr Odlozil
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