Re: A little doubt of methodology

On Monday 21 May 2007 11:32:37 Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> Dear people,
>
> I have a little doubt. I'm developing a program that use the network. So,
> the idea is to have a task that listen the socket. When I create the task,
> this task is a periodic task, and an x miliseconds a run the task, or a
> nonpeeriodic task, and when the socket receive some data, then this emits
> something through the data port?

Even if your data packets come in periodically, it won't work well using a 
periodic task, as the sender will not have the exact period as the receiving 
task (due to clock drift). Hence, your receiver is better non periodic and 
blocks on the socket for new data.

In RTT 1.2.0, there is better support for these cases. The discussion was held 
here: <https://www.fmtc.be/orocos-bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=353>, you'll need
to use the discussed trigger() function as well.

Peter

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