top: introduce background updates via separate threads
After the stage had been set in the previous patch, in this patch we will actually implement those background updates via 3 separate threads. The design was simple: . the do-while loops have now been made truly infinite . 2 semaphores per thread allow needed synchronization . 1 semaphore will provide for each thread to sem_wait . 1 semaphore will provide for display o/p to sem_wait . and all 3 thread's program name was made descriptive A complication was the potential for a signal directed to one of our new threads. Rather than having a thread try to deal with such signals, we pass a mask with all signals blocked at pthread_create time. Thereafter any subsequent signals are forwarded to the parent thread. [ also sigprocmask was exchanged for pthread_sigmask ] [ since warned about use "in multithreaded process". ] [ plus we also modified each of those POSIX comments ] [ about 2004 to agree with current signal-safety(7). ] Sadly, after all this effort there were no performance benefits to having separate threads. In fact there was a measurable performance degradation when running with ever smaller delay intervals. But even with a delay of 1/10 second the 'real' cost increase is only about 1%. There is one way whereby any additional costs might be eliminated (at least seemingly). One could introduce 2 separate sets of contexts for each of those 3 threads. Then retrieval & display could be overlapped. However, the resulting display wouldn't represent the real-time results. Rather it would be stale by 1 delay interval. Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ enum norm_nls {
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WORD_process_txt, WORD_threads_txt, WRITE_rcfile_fmt, WRONG_switch_fmt,
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XTRA_badflds_fmt, XTRA_fixwide_fmt, XTRA_modebad_txt, XTRA_size2up_txt,
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XTRA_vforest_fmt, XTRA_warncfg_txt, XTRA_warnold_txt, XTRA_winsize_txt,
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X_SEMAPHORES_fmt, X_THREADINGS_fmt,
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#ifndef INSP_OFFDEMO
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YINSP_demo01_txt, YINSP_demo02_txt, YINSP_demo03_txt, YINSP_deqfmt_txt,
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YINSP_deqtyp_txt, YINSP_dstory_txt,
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