From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4995B619.1040506@domain.hid> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:04:09 +0100 From: Philippe Gerum MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <57e813c90902130946p362eeb18m3141b31fc6aee873@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <57e813c90902130946p362eeb18m3141b31fc6aee873@domain.hid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] Confusion regarding linux/xenomai tasks Reply-To: rpm@xenomai.org List-Id: Help regarding installation and common use of Xenomai List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Zara Tustra Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org Zara Tustra wrote: > I've read some information regarding the difficulty of communication > between Linux threads and Xenomai tasks, and I've had some > misinformation fired at me from co-workers. Regarding this, you definitely need to fix your co-workers, not Xenomai. I just want to make some > points clear: > > 1) Can a Linux application launch Xenomai tasks, or I've horribly > misread things somewhere? My understanding is that Xenomai tasks are > commonly activated by a Linux process. > > 2) Can real-time Xenomai tasks started by a Linux application > communicate with it through the global variables of that application? > > 3) What happens if I make a syscall or similar non-real-time call from a > Xenomai task? Is the task automatically 'demoted' to non-real-time? How > can I tell? > Please start there: http://www.xenomai.org/documentation/branches/v2.3.x/pdf/Native-API-Tour-rev-C.pdf > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Xenomai-help mailing list > Xenomai-help@domain.hid > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-help -- Philippe.