Re: Multithreading question
Der Herr Hofrat <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.real-time.rtlinux.general |
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> Sorry, > now that im thinking about it more, i think my question was more > directed towards time slicing. Ive written multi threaded programs > before, but I wasnt quite sure if RTLinux time sliced the same way, > Ive read up some more on threads and RTLinux and from what I gather It > would be quicker to multithread my program since thread creation is > less overhead then processes in general. I think I was rushing into > the question, what I have is a real time robotics module that was > written without the general philosophy of rtlinux, being, anything > that can be done non real time, should not be done real time > (something to that effect), so Im thinking now that perhaps it would > be more efficient to spawn threads for movement, vision and sensing. > My next question is , can the sigaction be used with the free rtlinux > or just with pro? > sigaction is fully supported by the signals extension that the OCERA people (University of Valencia) added -> examples/signals/pending/pending.c If you where refering to rtlinux_sigaction calls for user-space signal/interrupt handling, this is actually still supported but has benn causing problems in the latest version - basically because it is not realy a very good solution, and it has not shown to be that usable for hard-realtime, guess its more or less unmaintained at this point. hofrat _______________________________________________ Rtl mailing list [email protected] http://www2.fsmlabs.com/mailman/listinfo/rtl