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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:45:59 -0800
Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] resume/suspend periodic timing issue
From: Steven Seeger <steve@domain.hid>
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I have never see an RTOS exhibit this behavior, and previous versions of
Fusion and the classic RTAI did not.

Steven


On 2/27/06 10:39 AM, "Gilles Chanteperdrix"
<gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org> wrote:

> 
> This behaviour is due to the way the overruns are accounted for: not
> having called rt_task_wait_period while the periodic timer elapses is
> currently considered an abnormal usage of the interface, and counted as
> an overrun.
> 
> A way around this behaviour is to create an alarm object with
> rt_alarm_create, and use rt_alarm_start and rt_alarm_wait for each
> shot.