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Re: Multithread facilities under Linux



On Fri, 2 Apr 1999 02:32:00 +0300 (EET DST), guy keren <choo@actcom.co.il>
wrote:

>
>On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Daniel Feiglin wrote:
>
>> Here is another one: A few years back I did a citrus packing house production
>> line control system.
>> I did the job under OS/2 because Windoze couldn't handle the real time stuff.
>> It used 3 processes, one multithreaded with event semaphores and timers all
>> over the place. Again, I'm asking myself, how if at all,I would go about that
>> sort of thing under Linux.
>
>by default, unix's timers are NOT real-time. however, there are extentions
>for linux that add some real-time support (including real time
>scheduling). i think that reading the man pages of 'sched_setscheduler'
>for information about setting scheduling policies, and references to
>other relevant manual pages.

In case you are not aware of this, there is a real time extension for the
Linux kernel, available at www.rtlinux.org

>guy

Udi