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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] RT pipe communication between two real-time tasks
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To: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@domain.hid>
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Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I wonder if it's possible to use the RT pipe to exchange messages 
> between two real-time task (in primary mode). The existence of the 
> undocumented function rt_pipe_bind() makes me think so.
>

Nope, this won't work with the current implementation. A message pipe always
connects a real-time endpoint with a regular chardev endpoint.

We could enable this feature in 2.5, but now, we have buffer objects available
as well in the trunk/, which would make this redundant.

> http://www.rts.uni-hannover.de/xenomai/lxr/source/include/native/pipe.h?v=SVN-2.4.x#163
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> Wolfgang.
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Philippe.