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makecontext
,
swapcontext
— modify and
exchange user thread contexts
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
#include
<ucontext.h>
void
makecontext
(ucontext_t *ucp,
void (*func)(), int argc,
...);
int
swapcontext
(ucontext_t
*oucp, const ucontext_t
*ucp);
The
makecontext
()
function modifies the user thread context pointed to by
ucp, which must have previously been initialized by a
call to getcontext(3) and had a
stack allocated for it. The context is modified so that it will continue
execution by invoking
func
()
with the arguments (of type int) provided. The
argc argument must be equal to the number of
additional arguments provided to makecontext
() and
also equal to the number of arguments to func
(), or
else the behavior is undefined.
The ucp->uc_link
argument must be initialized before calling
makecontext
()
and determines the action to take when
func
()
returns: if equal to NULL
, the process exits;
otherwise,
setcontext
(ucp->uc_link)
is implicitly invoked.
The
swapcontext
()
function saves the current thread context in *oucp and
makes *ucp the currently active context.
If successful, swapcontext
() returns zero;
otherwise -1 is returned and the global variable errno
is set appropriately.
The swapcontext
() function will fail
if:
ENOMEM
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