Re: [Xenomai-help] Uniqueness of registry objects

[Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>]

Thomas.Debes@domain.hid wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using the native skin together with mutexes and message queues. If
> I use the same name for both objects (mutex="test" , queuename="test") I
> can not register the second one because it fails with error -17 (file
> exists) in rt_queue_create. I assume that the registry service doesn't
> make a difference between the various RT object types. Can you confirm
> this behaviour?

Yes.

 If it is by design would it be better to differ between
> the various RT object types (mutex, queue, pipe etc.)?
>

This uniqueness was deliberately required so that we could implement
remote object registration in the future, for supporting distributed
systems. In such a case, it's better that peers do not have to know
about each other's exact nature. In this case, one would just want to
establish a link between peers based on a common protocol, regardless of
what actually implements each communication endpoint.

-- 
Philippe.