[Corelinux-develop] Thread State Transition Diagram (continued)

[Hans D. <dul...@co...>]

I hit the "Sent" button accidentally but my e-mail was not complete.
So here is the more complete one.

1) ThreadContext.hpp declares an enum type ThreadState
(THREAD_WAITING_TO_START,
THREAD_STARTING, ...., THREAD_START_FAILED).

2) The Thread::get.*Count() routines depend on Thread::theThreadState to
report
the correct number of threads in specific state.

How is the thread state transition diagram looks like? Here is what I
infered from the existing code:

When a new thread is created its state is WAITING_TO_START,
When the thread is started from startThread its state is set to RUNNING
(this is what added to version 1.17 and checked in as version 1.18).
May be I should change this to STARTING, instead of RUNNING.

But then how the transition from STARTING to RUNNING will take place?


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