THREADTEST(9)

✨ THREADTEST ✨ (section 9 of the manuals, HAL Component edition 💅)

okay bestie, welcome to threadtest — it's the LinuxCNC HAL component whose whole entire job is testing thread behavior. that's it. that's the gig. it's giving "lab rat but make it iconic" 🧪🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

threadtest — a LinuxCNC HAL component for testing thread behavior ✨ (yes literally, that's what it does, no plot twist)

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

loadrt threadtest [count=N|names=name1[,name2...]]

so you load it with loadrt, and you can either say count=N or hand it a list like names=name1[,name2...] — pick your fighter, not both at once 😌

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🔥 FUNCTIONS 🔥

these are the functions it brings to the party:

• threadtest.N.increment — the increment function, one per instance N 🫶
• threadtest.N.reset — the reset function, also one per instance N 💅

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💖 PINS 💖

• threadtest.N.count — u32 type, and it's an out pin, so it's the component telling you the number, not the other way around. main character energy fr fr 👑

the N in all of these is just the instance number, bestie — load more than one and they each get their own little numbered set of everything 🍓

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jeff Epler — the actual legend who wrote this 🌈⭐

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🌸 LICENSE 🌸

GPL — GNU General Public License, periodt 💜

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and that's the whole page, no cap 🎀 this lil doc came out of the LinuxCNC Documentation and it's dated 2026-03-17. go forth and test those threads, bestie, i'm obsessed 🦋💖