Comtrol eCos - Manual (Page 425)

Chapter 24. Synchronization
The FILEIO infrastructure provides a synchronization mechanism for controlling concurrent access to filesystems.
This allows existing filesystems to be ported to eCos, even if they do not have their own synchronization mech-
anisms. It also allows new filesystems to be implemented easily without having to consider the synchronization
issues.
The infrastructure maintains a mutex for each entry in each of the main tables: filesystem table, mount table and
file table. For each class of operation each of these mutexes may be locked before the corresponding filesystem
operation is invoked.
The synchronization protocol required by a filesystem is described by the syncmode field of the filesystem table
entry. This is a combination of the following flags:
CYG_SYNCMODE_FILE_FILESYSTEM
Lock the filesystem table entry mutex during all filesystem level operations.
CYG_SYNCMODE_FILE_MOUNTPOINT
Lock the mount table entry mutex during all filesystem level operations.
CYG_SYNCMODE_IO_FILE
Lock the file table entry mutex during all I/O operations.
CYG_SYNCMODE_IO_FILESYSTEM
Lock the filesystem table entry mutex during all I/O operations.
CYG_SYNCMODE_IO_MOUNTPOINT
Lock the mount table entry mutex during all I/O operations.
CYG_SYNCMODE_SOCK_FILE
Lock the file table entry mutex during all socket operations.
CYG_SYNCMODE_SOCK_NETSTACK
Lock the network stack table entry mutex during all socket operations.
CYG_SYNCMODE_NONE
Perform no locking at all during any operations.
The value of the syncmode field in the filesystem table entry will be copied by the infrastructure to the open file
object after a successful open() operation.
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