On 07/24/2015 04:56 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2015-07-24 16:29, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>> On 07/23/2015 03:27 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> On 2015-07-23 11:45, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>>>> On 07/23/2015 11:37 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>>> On 2015-07-23 11:24, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Jan,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you still have a use case for calling rt_print_auto_init(false) or
>>>>>> not calling rt_print_auto_init(true) from libcobalt's bootstrap code?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Huh, that was a day-one feature, now 8 years old, barely remember the
>>>>> details. I'm currently not aware of a concrete scenario. It definitely
>>>>> makes sense to revisit this think.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess one, if not the major problem back then was that the implicit
>>>>> malloc of the initialization step was not consistently causing a
>>>>> SIGDEBUG warning. That is now different.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Since the current thread won't be notified until XNWARN is armed in its
>>>> TCB, any objection to move that call as a nop placeholder to the compat
>>>> section in libtrank, leaving the implicit init to libcobalt as currently?
>>>
>>> Ack.
>>>
>>
>> Ok, let's see how deep you can dive into your context stack these days:
>> what about rt_print_cleanup() now? I see no in-tree callers, and I
>> wonder whether there is any use case for an application to stop the
>> stdio support during runtime.
> 
> I used to have one recently that was specifically interested in
> terminating the associated thread. But that case was modified later on
> due to other reasons. In principle, the value of this cleanup function
> is in the printer thread control, even if that means cutting of wrapped
> I/O (you could still print via unwrapped services then).
> 

Ok. Was it part of a broader feature aimed at moving the per-process rt
support to a quiescent state?

-- 
Philippe.

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