I want to communicate between two threads, each belonging to a different process. Iam using message queues for this. I use mq_open()call. I created the queues with the same queue name starting with a '/'. But when I open the queue, the queue ID is different in both the process. What should I do so that both the process have the same queue ID?
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I have a pthread waiting forever on a POSIX message queue and then call mq_close and mq_unlink on the POSIX message queue. I've found that the pthread never wakes up from it's call to mq_receive and remains blocked indefinitely. Is there a way to wakeup all pthreads blocked on a POSIX message queue after calling mq_close/mq_unlink? The goal is to include error handling during message queue deletion to avoid leaving any pthreads blocked forever.
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My problem is that maybe it can happen that a thread start and finish before the other one starts and so it deletes the memory nedded by the other thread. How can I synchronize them so that this can't happend.
As a design my threads look like this:
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The other thread looks the same, but this isn't unoff to stop thread1 to finish before thread2 starts.
I've implemented a program URL... which reads digital IF data from a radio receiver through a named pipe, measures power levels, and sends the result to stdout. The program is interactive; there is a thread that reads from stdin to watch for commands, a thread that constantly either reads data from the named pipe or throws data away, and an array of processing threads. The program uses GTK+extra to plot the signals. The IF data stream bandwidth exists at the limits of today's technology (is very very fast).
Problem Statement:The program works fine with a few bugs. I've learned since I've made it that using global state variables to coordinate threads isn't a good way of doing it. I also only had knowledge of mutexes and polled the state variable instead of using other methods.My reimplementation will use the following:
- One "Stdin Command Monitoring" thread
- One "Get data from named pipe" thread
- One post-processor thread
- N Processing threads
All threads are alive during the life of main()There are N buffers. Data will come in from the named pipe, and the "Get data" thread will write the data to an "available" buffer. When the buffer is full it will be marked as "full". There will be N processing threads, one for each buffer. When a processing threads' buffer is full, it will process the buffer and save the result to a final buffer. At the end of a number of averages, the post-processor thread will perform a final process on the final buffer and send the results to stdout.
I am implementing an IPC mechanism using message queues (Sys V).I can receive the messages using msgrcv() function. I am wondering how can I listen on the new messages. I would like to implement a mechanism that would notify me when there is a new message in the queue for me and I will call the msgrcv() function to retrieve the message.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have this daemon I'm writing in Python, but I still a Python n00b. I've coded the part of the daemon that does the work, but not the part that receives messages. I need a simple system so that other processes on the same (Linux) computer can occasionally send text-string messages to the daemon (without needing to stay running all the time themselves). Once in the past we did something similar by (mis)using pyliblo to listen for OSC messages coming in on a certain port. That option isn't as workable here because the pyliblo interface (as near as I can tell) requires you to know in advance specifically what messages you are expecting, and forward them to specified functions, rather than just allowing you to generically process incoming messages as you see fit.
View 1 Replies View Relatedrecently I had been to interview where I had a question to be answered, that what are advantages and disadvantages when desiging an application in linux.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI was trying to use Message Queues for sending message from aninserted kernel module to user space. The function sys_msgsnd failedgiving the obvious error -EFAULT.However, I was able to send the message from kernel to user space when I had made the same driver part of kernel (and not inserting it).How is that possible?I am using linux.2.6.19.x (arch=ppc)I now use Netlink socket to communicate from kernel to user, but the aboveproblem seemed strange to me.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi am working on a project that uses message queues. i am able to successfully create them and they are working fine. now the problem is to close/remove message queues without software or mq_close / mq_unlink command. earlier when i worked on rh9, there is ipcs utility. we use ipcs to see all the existing message queues and ipcrm to remove them. however ipcs is not working for message queues in RHEL 5.3. Neither ipcs shows the exisiting message queues and neither we are able to use ipcrm. Plz guide to close/remove the queues with ipcs or any other command/utility from shell itself.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to set up an NIS client on a Fedora Core 12 64-bit system. The ypbind daemon is running via the /etc/init.d/ypbind script. However, whenever I run the ypwhich command, the following error message appears on-screen:
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The client has been configured so the domain is set, and the client will broadcast for the first available nis server. The client is on a subnet where there is one nis slave server, so it should bind to that server. One thought that came to mind was the fact the client in question is 64-bit, while the nis slave is 32-bit. Could that cause this problem?
I'm in the process of writing a program that is a server- it will accept connections and stuff, and spawn a child process for each. However, i've run into a small problem. I do NOT want to bother with keeping track of the processes unless i need to. So, i set SA_NOCLDWAIT (#ifdef) on a SIG_IGN to the SIGCHLD handler through sigaction interface. The standard says that it the kernel will then keep track of reaping zombie processes for me (a HUGE plus). However, upon receiving a SIGINT signal, i want to stop the server from accepting new connections (done), and then wait for there to be no new connections. I was thinking of just putting a loop like so:
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while((wait(NULL) != (pid_t)-1) && errno != ECHILD);
However, I'm not *sure* that this will work, especially with SIGCHLD still ignored. So how can i tell if there are still child processes? I can't find any call like int getnumchld(pid_t proc); (i wish). Plus it would be inefficient to spin on that function anyway. OTOH, i would rather *NOT* have to do the same thing in a loop with a system("ps |...>file"); read(file); etc. either. Is there a way i can portably implement this feature (I was hoping i could run it on linux and the major BSDs, at least).
TO SUM IT UP:
How can i tell if a process has no child processes if i've SIG_IGN'd SA_NOCLDWAIT'd the SIGCHLD? Is there a _reasonably_ portable way to do so? I *don't* want to manually wait for EVERY process. Maybe only those still active at the time of SIGTERM, but that requires keeping track of the number of connections and whether those have terminated...
EDIT: Does anyone know if the above code *would* work, even with SIGCHLD ignored and the kernel cleaning up zombies *for* me? I checked the manpage and it doesn't say much.
EDIT1: Note that all of the processes are in the same process group and session. SO i can find them through this as well. Perhaps even setting the uid/gid and finding all processes run by that group?
EDIT2: i have an idea if the above isn't feasible. If there is no "elegant" way to do it, i could reduce the complexity by sending a SIGUSR1 to the whole process group. Each process would then set a flag telling it to send a SIGUSR1 in reply and send a SIGUSR2 when it is done executing. Then i could keep a count of signals. Maybe that would be *easier*. Or perhaps a count of all child processes and just a termination signal to decrement the counter.
I have created two threads:
Thread 1 and thread 2
In the main thread, i have put up a timer which generates a signal periodically when it expires, which reults in execution going to signal catcher function.when this function is invoked, under certain condition it goes to thread 1 and under another condition it goes to thread 2. The problem lies here that when it goes to thread2,i have a loop to process but it doesnt come out of the loop and hence from thread2, even though timer has expired.
i want a process that can operate as both a TCP echo server and a UDP echo server. The process can provide service to many clients at the same time, but involves a single process that does not start up any other threads.
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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
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The code compiles without errors, but doesn't catch any input text from the device attached to RS232. I have tried it with Rx and Tx connected, but didn't receive my text back. It works OK if I substitute /dev/ttyS0 with an ordinary file, but any attempt to use /dev/ttyS0 seems to lead to an empty answer string. I tried this on a PC under Ubuntu Linux 7.10.
I have a application in C++, and now I have two class. MyDialog is the class that main function launch. In MyDialog class there are four elements and when I click over theese elements, there is a MousePressEvent that launch other class, Touchpad class. So, in some moments, I have loaded two class. My question is, how can pass a value from Touchpad class to MyDialog class, when I close (destroy) Touchpad class. In a few words, is it possible to communicate values between class?
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View 12 Replies View RelatedIn all the examples I have found the server accepts the client's conection, proccess the data received and close the socket. In an very schematic way it would be something like:
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client_thread{
select to see if there is data to read from socket fd
if there is something to read{
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Should I use mutexs or semaphores to block the socket fd before read and write or it is not necesary?
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI wrote a C program using Pthreads to compute the product of 2 matrices. Each element in the product matrix is computed in a separate thread. Eg: Thread (i,j) computes the element C[i][j] of the matrix C, where C=A*B. A is m*n, B is n*p, C is m*p. m,n,p are given as command-line arguments. A and B are initialized to random values from 1 to 10, while all elements of C are initialized to -1.But some threads do not get their arguments (i,j) correctly. So some elements C[i][j] still remain as -1, even after the program is over. My OS is Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) 32-bit.I ran the program on another computer and it worked correctly. Is it due to a problem in the Pthreads library in my OS? Please help me. I have attached the source code.
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Please I want Know the code of the Merge Sort with threads in C
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View 1 Replies View RelatedFedora15 32bit. I write a test program, it creates new thread continually, the thread does nothing but sleep. I find virtual memory increases up almost 10Mb when a new thread is created. and when there's more than 200 threads, the virtual memory used by the program is 3Gb, and now cann't create new thread. but on windows, it costs little memory. What can I do to config the operation system to take less memory on threads?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI am runig a program on a server at my university that has 4 Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2210 HE and the O.S. is Linux version 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.x86_64. My program implements Conways Game of Life and it runs using pthreads and openmp. I timed the parrallel part of the program using the getimeofday() function using 1-8 threads. But the timings don't seem right. I get the biggest time using 1 thread(as expected), then the time gets smaller. But the smallest time i get is when i use 4 threads.
Here is an example when i use an array 1000x1000.
Using 1 thread~9,62 sec, Using 2 Threads~4,73 sec, Using 3 ~ 3.64 sec, Using 4~2.99 sec, Using 5 ~4,19 sec, Using 6~3.84, Using 7~3.34, Using 8~3.12.The above timings are when i use pthreads. When i use openmp the timing are smaller but follow the same pattern.I expected that the time would decrease from 1-8 because of the 4 Dual core cpus? I thought that because there are 4 cpus with 2 cores each, 8 threads could run at the same time. Does it have to do with the operating system that the server runs?
Also i tested the same programs on another server that has 7 Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8214 and runs Linux version 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5. There the timings i get are what i expected. The timings get smaller starting from 1(the biggest) to 8(smallest excecution time).The program implements the Game of Life correct, both using pthreads and openmp, i just cant figure out why the timings are like the example i posted. So in conclusion, my questions are:
1) The number of threads that can run at the same time on a system depends by the cores of the cpus?it depends only by the cpus although each cpu has more than one cores? It depends by all the previous and the Operating System?
2) Does it have to do with the way i divide the 1000x1000 array to the number of threads? But if i did then the openmp code wouldn't give the same pattern of timings?
3)What is the reason i might get such timmings?
A good book to learn about threads in C/C++?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm a bit worried about "too many mutexes" in my little curses-based app and would like to get confirmation/opinions that I'm doing this right. I've got an array: int nums[60] I've got 61 threads. 1-60 are doing math on the value in their array index (ie: thread1 increments nums[1], threadN increments nums[N]), then sleep(1) The 61st thread is my curses thread which does a for-loop over the array and prints out all the values to the screen, then sleep(1)
Right now, I've got 1 mutex which gets locked/unlocked each time one of the 60 threads needs to update its array-index with a new value, and the 61st thread locks the same mutex just before the for-loop beings reading the values and unlocks after ending the loop.
My questions:
A) Does the above seem OK? (I know it's ok, cause everything works right now but would like opinions on it)
B) Do I even need the mutexes since 1-60 only ever update their own index and 61 just reads?
C) If I do need the mutex protection, is there a better, more efficient way?
