{ This file is part of the Free Pascal run time library. (c) 2000-2003 by Marco van de Voort member of the Free Pascal development team. See the file COPYING.FPC, included in this distribution, for details about the copyright. TThread implementation old (1.0) and new (pthreads) style This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. } { What follows, is a short description on my implementation of TThread. Most information can also be found by reading the source and accompanying comments. A thread is created using BeginThread, which in turn calls pthread_create. So the threads here are always posix threads. Posix doesn't define anything for suspending threads as this is inherintly unsafe. Just don't suspend threads at points they cannot control. Therefore, I didn't implement .Suspend() if its called from outside the threads execution flow (except on Linux _without_ NPTL). The implementation for .suspend uses a semaphore, which is initialized at thread creation. If the thread tries to suspend itself, we simply let it wait on the semaphore until it is unblocked by someone else who calls .Resume. If a thread is supposed to be suspended (from outside its own path of execution) on a system where the symbol LINUX is defined, two things are possible. 1) the system has the LinuxThreads pthread implementation 2) the system has NPTL as the pthread implementation. In the first case, each thread is a process on its own, which as far as know actually violates posix with respect to signal handling. But we can detect this case, because getpid(2) will return a different PID for each thread. In that case, sending SIGSTOP to the PID associated with a thread will actually stop that thread only. In the second case, this is not possible. But getpid(2) returns the same PID across all threads, which is detected, and TThread.Suspend() does nothing in that case. This should probably be changed, but I know of no way to suspend a thread when using NPTL. If the symbol LINUX is not defined, then the unimplemented function SuspendThread is called. Johannes Berg , Sunday, November 16 2003 } // ========== semaphore stuff ========== { I don't like this. It eats up 2 filedescriptors for each thread, and those are a limited resource. If you have a server programm handling client connections (one per thread) it will not be able to handle many if we use 2 fds already for internal structures. However, right now I don't see a better option unless some sem_* functions are added to systhrds. I encapsulated all used functions here to make it easier to change them completely. } function SemaphoreInit: Pointer; begin SemaphoreInit := GetMem(SizeOf(TFilDes)); fppipe(PFilDes(SemaphoreInit)^); end; procedure SemaphoreWait(const FSem: Pointer); var b: byte; begin fpread(PFilDes(FSem)^[0], b, 1); end; procedure SemaphorePost(const FSem: Pointer); {$ifdef VER2_0} var b : byte; {$endif} begin {$ifdef VER2_0} b:=0; fpwrite(PFilDes(FSem)^[1], b, 1); {$else} fpwrite(PFilDes(FSem)^[1], #0, 1); {$endif} end; procedure SemaphoreDestroy(const FSem: Pointer); begin fpclose(PFilDes(FSem)^[0]); fpclose(PFilDes(FSem)^[1]); FreeMemory(FSem); end; // =========== semaphore end =========== var ThreadsInited: boolean = false; {$IFDEF LINUX} GMainPID: LongInt = 0; {$ENDIF} const // stupid, considering its not even implemented... Priorities: array [TThreadPriority] of Integer = (-20,-19,-10,0,9,18,19); procedure InitThreads; begin if not ThreadsInited then begin ThreadsInited := true; {$IFDEF LINUX} GMainPid := fpgetpid(); {$ENDIF} end; end; procedure DoneThreads; begin ThreadsInited := false; end; { ok, so this is a hack, but it works nicely. Just never use a multiline argument with WRITE_DEBUG! } {$MACRO ON} {$IFDEF DEBUG_MT} {$define WRITE_DEBUG := writeln} // actually write something {$ELSE} {$define WRITE_DEBUG := //} // just comment out those lines {$ENDIF} function ThreadFunc(parameter: Pointer): LongInt; cdecl; var LThread: TThread; c: char; begin WRITE_DEBUG('ThreadFunc is here...'); LThread := TThread(parameter); {$IFDEF LINUX} // save the PID of the "thread" // this is different from the PID of the main thread if // the LinuxThreads implementation is used LThread.FPid := fpgetpid(); {$ENDIF} WRITE_DEBUG('thread initing, parameter = ', LongInt(LThread)); try if LThread.FInitialSuspended then begin SemaphoreWait(LThread.FSem); if not LThread.FSuspended then begin LThread.FInitialSuspended := false; WRITE_DEBUG('going into LThread.Execute'); LThread.Execute; end; end else begin WRITE_DEBUG('going into LThread.Execute'); LThread.Execute; end; except on e: exception do begin WRITE_DEBUG('got exception: ',e.message); LThread.FFatalException := TObject(AcquireExceptionObject); // not sure if we should really do this... // but .Destroy was called, so why not try FreeOnTerminate? if e is EThreadDestroyCalled then LThread.FFreeOnTerminate := true; end; end; WRITE_DEBUG('thread done running'); Result := LThread.FReturnValue; WRITE_DEBUG('Result is ',Result); LThread.FFinished := True; LThread.DoTerminate; if LThread.FreeOnTerminate then begin WRITE_DEBUG('Thread should be freed'); LThread.Free; WRITE_DEBUG('Thread freed'); end; WRITE_DEBUG('thread func exiting'); end; { TThread } constructor TThread.Create(CreateSuspended: Boolean; const StackSize: SizeUInt = DefaultStackSize); begin // lets just hope that the user doesn't create a thread // via BeginThread and creates the first TThread Object in there! InitThreads; inherited Create; FSem := SemaphoreInit; FSuspended := CreateSuspended; FSuspendedExternal := false; FInitialSuspended := CreateSuspended; FFatalException := nil; WRITE_DEBUG('creating thread, self = ',longint(self)); FHandle:= BeginThread(@ThreadFunc, Pointer(Self), FThreadID, StackSize); WRITE_DEBUG('TThread.Create done'); end; destructor TThread.Destroy; begin if (FThreadID = GetCurrentThreadID) and not(FFreeOnTerminate) then begin raise EThreadDestroyCalled.Create('A thread cannot destroy itself except by setting FreeOnTerminate and leaving!'); end; // if someone calls .Free on a thread with // FreeOnTerminate, then don't crash! FFreeOnTerminate := false; if not FFinished and not FSuspended then begin Terminate; WaitFor; end; if (FInitialSuspended) then begin // thread was created suspended but never woken up. SemaphorePost(FSem); WaitFor; end; FFatalException.Free; FFatalException := nil; SemaphoreDestroy(FSem); inherited Destroy; end; procedure TThread.SetSuspended(Value: Boolean); begin if Value <> FSuspended then if Value then Suspend else Resume; end; procedure TThread.Suspend; begin if not FSuspended then begin if FThreadID = GetCurrentThreadID then begin FSuspended := true; SemaphoreWait(FSem); end else begin FSuspendedExternal := true; {$IFDEF LINUX} // naughty hack if the user doesn't have Linux with NPTL... // in that case, the PID of threads will not be identical // to the other threads, which means that our thread is a normal // process that we can suspend via SIGSTOP... // this violates POSIX, but is the way it works on the // LinuxThreads pthread implementation. Not with NPTL, but in that case // getpid(2) also behaves properly and returns the same PID for // all threads. Thats actually (FINALLY!) native thread support :-) if FPid <> GMainPID then begin FSuspended := true; fpkill(FPid, SIGSTOP); end; {$ELSE} SuspendThread(FHandle); {$ENDIF} end; end; end; procedure TThread.Resume; begin if (not FSuspendedExternal) then begin if FSuspended then begin FSuspended := False; SemaphorePost(FSem); end; end else begin FSuspendedExternal := false; ResumeThread(FHandle); end; end; procedure TThread.Terminate; begin FTerminated := True; end; function TThread.WaitFor: Integer; begin WRITE_DEBUG('waiting for thread ',FHandle); WaitFor := WaitForThreadTerminate(FHandle, 0); WRITE_DEBUG('thread terminated'); end; procedure TThread.CallOnTerminate; begin // no need to check if FOnTerminate <> nil, because // thats already done in DoTerminate FOnTerminate(self); end; procedure TThread.DoTerminate; begin if Assigned(FOnTerminate) then Synchronize(@CallOnTerminate); end; function TThread.GetPriority: TThreadPriority; var P: Integer; I: TThreadPriority; begin P := ThreadGetPriority(FHandle); Result := tpNormal; for I := Low(TThreadPriority) to High(TThreadPriority) do if Priorities[I] = P then Result := I; end; procedure TThread.SetPriority(Value: TThreadPriority); begin ThreadSetPriority(FHandle, Priorities[Value]); end;