One year and one day passed since I started writing my own RTOS. distortos project is still evolving and - as of today - has 1542 commits. Since previous news article only two new features were implemented, but both of them are rarely seen in other RTOSes. One of them is OnceFlag class with callOnce() function - which are equivalents of std::once_flag class and std::call_once() function from C++11 standard or pthread_once_t structure and pthread_once() function from <pthread.h>.

Second new feature is an implementation of POSIX signals. Signals can be handled both by synchronous waiting - with ThisThread::Signals::wait(), ThisThread::Signals::tryWait(), ThisThread::Signals::tryWaitFor() andThisThread::Signals::tryWaitUntil() functions - and by asynchronous signal handlers - using ThisThread::Signals::setSignalAction() function. As in the established standards, delivery of signal causes interruption of some blocking functions (like Semaphore::wait() or MessageQueue::pop()), which return EINTR error code in that case. Looking at this feature from the other side - from the "source" of the signal - it is possible to "generate" the signal (ThreadBase::generateSignal()) or "queue" the signal with a value (ThreadBase::queueSignal()). Obviously, the signals can also be masked and ignored.

All of that is - still - possible without a single byte of dynamically allocated memory! In case of static threads (StaticThread instances) it is necessary to state whether the thread can receive the signals at all, how many signals can be queued simultaneously and how many different SignalAction objects can be used at the same time.

Stay tuned!

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