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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] alarms
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To: Steven Seeger <steven.seeger@domain.hid>
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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.

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                                                 Gilles.