possible problems with kernel threading code?

[Chris Friesen]

I'm running the following code under 2.4.18-2.4.20, with the standard 
thread library, and sometimes I get an error of "No such process".  How 
can this possibly happen?  The pthread_setschedparam() call is running 
in the thread that it is trying to operate on, but somehow it can't find 
itself?

I also have managed to trigger reboots with this code, and I'm not sure how.

Anyone have any ideas?  Is this a kernel problem?  I can trigger it on 
ppc hardware under kernel versions 2.4.18-2.4.20 and a modified 2.4.22. 
(I haven't tried 2.4.21)  My x86 with a 2.4.18-19.8.0 redhat kernel 
doesn't show the problem.

Thanks,

Chris



#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

pthread_t t1;

void *func(void *p)
{
  pid_t pid;
  int status;

  struct sched_param schedParam;
  int         policy = SCHED_RR;
  int         priority = 40;

 schedParam.sched_priority = priority;
 int schedRc = pthread_setschedparam(t1, policy, &schedParam);
 if (schedRc){
      fprintf(stderr, "pthread_setschedparam error:%s, priority:%d,
              policy:%d\n",strerror(schedRc), priority, policy);
  }
  pthread_exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
  return 0;
}


int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  pthread_create(&t1, 0, func,(void*)1);
  pthread_join(t1,0);
  return 0;
}


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