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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
To: Steven Seeger <steven.seeger@domain.hid>
Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org
Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] alarms
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:52:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D4B4F9.6050009@domain.hid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8DE810EC-5B18-4163-8793-0551C65DAAFB@comcast.net>

Steven Seeger wrote:
> Can alarms be used in userspace? I ask because the docs still say RTDM  
> timers can be used in userspace but Gilles told me they can not be.  
> Also, does the alarm run at the priority of the thread that created it  
> or does it run at a priority higher than anything else?

In case of doubts, the best documentation is the header: check in
include/native/alarm.h if the function you want to use is available in
user-space.

RTDM is special, because it only exists in kernel-space.

-- 
                                                 Gilles.


      reply	other threads:[~2009-04-02 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-02 12:46 [Xenomai-core] alarms Steven Seeger
2009-04-02 12:52 ` Gilles Chanteperdrix [this message]

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