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How to exit node with Ctrl+C, if I/O read() is in blocking stage?

asked 2019-12-20 08:39:19 -0600

JeyP4 gravatar image

I am trying to read CANBUS on a parallel thread. I initialized canbus in main thread because I want to make sure that CAN cables are connected. By initializing, I mean setsockopt(), ioctl(), bind() to configure the socket.

void readCanbus(int soktId) {
    while(true)
        int nbytes = read(soktId, ...);
}

int main() {
    int soktId;
    someSocketSetupFn(soktId);    // it takes argument as ref

    std::thread t(readCanbus, soktId);
    while (ros::ok)
    {
        // something to do
        usleep(200);
    }
    //t.join();
}

Problem: If there is no incoming CAN messages, read() is blocked. Ctrl+C doesn't terminate the C++11 Program.

How can I make the read() terminate and so the whole program?

Terminate thread c++11 blocked on read. This post proposed a solution for POSIX. I am working on ubuntu16.04.

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answered 2019-12-20 10:56:01 -0600

Abhishekpg gravatar image

You can use ctrl+z to exit a program. But with this it will be still running in the background i gues. You can kill this program by kill command. Search the running program by the command

ps -ef|grep -i "your_program_name"

It will give a list of background running program with your program name. In that list 2nd column represent the pid id of your program. You can kill the program using this pid with below command.

kill -9 pid_id

Hope this helps

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Thanks @Abhishekpg111. I am hoping for a clean and robust solution. E.g. using signal handler.

JeyP4 gravatar image JeyP4  ( 2019-12-20 15:53:37 -0600 )edit

I asked same question on stackoverflow. :) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5...

JeyP4 gravatar image JeyP4  ( 2019-12-23 16:09:15 -0600 )edit

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