Re: Orocos and RTAI/LXRT

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:

[...]
> > Do you have more information on this topic you mention, i.e.,
> > the programming policy to ensure no system calls are performed?
> 
> any time a program in hard real-time executes a system call,
> the process is kicked back to soft real-time.  All system calls
> must be done thru LXRT calls.  This is basically
> a trial-and-error process when adding real-time capabilities
> to an existing program.  

How can a not too experienced user be guided in this trial-and-error?
How must she interpret the result of her trial-and-error, i.e., when
does she see when something is (not) done appropriately?

[...]
> I'm not aware of specific documentation on this, there has been
> a flourishing of howtos and informal documents on RTAI and LXRT.

Which boils down to no real documentation at all, in practice :-(

Herman
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