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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:17:16 -0500
From:      "Thimble Smith" <tim@mysql.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   pthread_kill() not killing thread
Message-ID:  <20000324171716.E37030@threads.polyesthetic.msg>
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Hi.  I'm running 4.0-STABLE cvsup'd on Tuesday (21 Mar).  It
looks like pthread_kill() isn't killing the thread; I could be
doing something wrong, of course.  Here's the output of my test
program:

tim:/tmp$ cc -o simple simple.c -pthread
tim:/tmp$ ./simple
main-thrd: letting test thread start up...
test-body: unblocking signal and looping...
test-body: sleeping...
main-thrd: sleeping...
test-body: sleeping...
main-thrd: killing test thread...
main-thrd: waiting a sec...
test-body: sleeping...
main-thrd: unblocking TERM signal here...
main-thrd: waiting a sec...
test-body: sleeping...
main-thrd: exiting
test-body: sleeping...
test-body: sleeping...
test-body: sleeping...
test-body: sleeping...
test-body: returning
tim:/tmp$ 


The TERM signal never gets delivered to the test thread.  Here
is the code:

#include <assert.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>

pthread_t test_thread;
sigset_t set;

void *test_body(void *arg)
{
    int i;

    fprintf(stderr, "test-body: looping...\n");
    /* this SIG_UNBLOCK doesn't have any effect */
    /*assert( pthread_sigmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &set, NULL) == 0);*/
    for (i = 0; i < 8; ++i) {
	fprintf(stderr, "test-body: sleeping...\n");
	sleep(1);
    }

    fprintf(stderr, "test-body: returning\n");
    return NULL;
}

int main (void)
{
    pthread_attr_t attrs;

    sigemptyset(&set);
    sigaddset(&set, SIGTERM);
    assert( pthread_sigmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &set, NULL) == 0);

    assert( pthread_attr_init(&attrs) == 0);
    assert( pthread_attr_setdetachstate(&attrs, PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED) == 0);
    assert( pthread_create(&test_thread, &attrs, test_body, NULL) == 0 );
    assert( pthread_attr_destroy(&attrs) == 0);

    fprintf(stderr, "main-thrd: letting test thread start up...\n");
    sleep(1);

    /* I should have this uncommented for a real program, but it
       doesn't make any difference here - the signal isn't delivered. */
    /*assert( pthread_sigmask(SIG_BLOCK, &set, NULL) == 0);*/

    fprintf(stderr, "main-thrd: sleeping...\n");
    sleep(1);

    fprintf(stderr, "main-thrd: killing test thread...\n");
    assert( pthread_kill(test_thread, SIGTERM) == 0);

    fprintf(stderr, "main-thrd: waiting a sec...\n");
    sleep(1);

    /* With LinuxThreads, this would cause the program to terminate.
       But with -stable, this has no effect. */
    fprintf(stderr, "main-thrd: unblocking TERM signal here...\n");
    assert( pthread_sigmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &set, NULL) == 0);

    fprintf(stderr, "main-thrd: waiting a sec...\n");
    sleep(1);

    fprintf(stderr, "main-thrd: exiting\n");

    pthread_exit(NULL);
    /*exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);*/
}


The extra pthread_sigmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, &set) that is in test_body()
doesn't make any difference.

Am I doing something wrong?  Or should I file a problem report?

Thanks,

Tim


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