Squashed commit of the following:
sched: Rename all use of system_t to clock_t.
syscall: Rename all use of system_t to clock_t.
net: Rename all use of system_t to clock_t.
libs: Rename all use of system_t to clock_t.
fs: Rename all use of system_t to clock_t.
drivers: Rename all use of system_t to clock_t.
arch: Rename all use of system_t to clock_t.
include: Remove definition of systime_t; rename all use of system_t to clock_t.
According to the specification, the close function must wait until all data
has been written before it closes the file (except O_NONBLOCK is set). The
maximum waiting time for this is not specified.
To be able to edit the file list of the process, the close function has to lock
the file list semaphore. After that the close function of the serial driver is
called.
Waiting for the complete transmission of all data is done in the serial driver.
This causes the semaphore to remain locked until all data has been sent.
However, no other thread of the process can edit the file list for that time
(open, close, dup2, etc.). This is not optimal in a multithreaded environment.
Therefore, we have to keep the waiting time within the driver as short as possible.
Squashed commit of the following:
Change all calls to usleep() in the OS proper to calls to nxsig_usleep()
sched/signal: Add a new OS internal function nxsig_usleep() that is functionally equivalent to usleep() but does not cause a cancellaption point and does not modify the errno variable.
sched/signal: Add a new OS internal function nxsig_sleep() that is functionally equivalent to sleep() but does not cause a cancellaption point.
This commit backs out most of commit b4747286b1. That change was added because sem_wait() would sometimes cause cancellation points inappropriated. But with these recent changes, nxsem_wait() is used instead and it is not a cancellation point.
In the OS, all calls to sem_wait() changed to nxsem_wait(). nxsem_wait() does not return errors via errno so each place where nxsem_wait() is now called must not examine the errno variable.
In all OS functions (not libraries), change sem_wait() to nxsem_wait(). This will prevent the OS from creating bogus cancellation points and from modifying the per-task errno variable.
sched/semaphore: Add the function nxsem_wait(). This is a new internal OS interface. It is functionally equivalent to sem_wait() except that (1) it is not a cancellation point, and (2) it does not set the per-thread errno value on return.
sched/semaphore: Add nxsem_post() which is identical to sem_post() except that it never modifies the errno variable. Changed all references to sem_post in the OS to nxsem_post().
sched/semaphore: Add nxsem_destroy() which is identical to sem_destroy() except that it never modifies the errno variable. Changed all references to sem_destroy() in the OS to nxsem_destroy().
libc/semaphore and sched/semaphore: Add nxsem_getprotocol() and nxsem_setprotocola which are identical to sem_getprotocol() and set_setprotocol() except that they never modifies the errno variable. Changed all references to sem_setprotocol in the OS to nxsem_setprotocol(). sem_getprotocol() was not used in the OS
libc/semaphore: Add nxsem_getvalue() which is identical to sem_getvalue() except that it never modifies the errno variable. Changed all references to sem_getvalue in the OS to nxsem_getvalue().
sched/semaphore: Rename all internal private functions from sem_xyz to nxsem_xyz. The sem_ prefix is (will be) reserved only for the application semaphore interfaces.
libc/semaphore: Add nxsem_init() which is identical to sem_init() except that it never modifies the errno variable. Changed all references to sem_init in the OS to nxsem_init().
sched/semaphore: Rename sem_tickwait() to nxsem_tickwait() so that it is clear this is an internal OS function.
sched/semaphoate: Rename sem_reset() to nxsem_reset() so that it is clear this is an internal OS function.
device, while it is being terminated by pthread_cancel(), then
uart_close() gets called, but the semaphore (dev->recv.sem in the above
example) is still blocked.
This means that once the serial device is opened next time, data will
arrive on the serial port (and driver interrupts handled as normal), but
the received characters never arrive in the reader thread.
This patch addresses the problem by re-initializing the semaphores on the
last uart_close() on the device.
