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Message Passing Manager POSIX Interpretation Issues

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16.2.6: POSIX Interpretation Issues

There is one significant point of interpretation related to the RTEMS implementation of POSIX message queues:

What happens to threads already blocked on a message queue when the mode of that same message queue is changed from blocking to non-blocking?

The RTEMS POSIX implementation decided to unblock all waiting tasks with an EAGAIN status just as if a non-blocking version of the same operation had returned unsatisfied. This case is not discussed in the POSIX standard and other implementations may have chosen alternative behaviors.


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