[Dev] Interest in r-t app development in GNU/Linux

[Ed Hill]

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 11:53, M. Mueller (bhu5nji) wrote:
> On Monday 25 February 2002 01:22 pm, you wrote:
> > [2002-02-23 15:49] M. Mueller (bhu5nji) said:
> > | Is anyone one the list interested in discussing and sharing code for
> > | non-blocking I/O and/or IPC and/or pthreaded and/or fat-process real-time
> > | apps in a GNU/Linux environment?
> >
> > sounds interesting.  What does "fat-process" real-time mean?
> >
> 
> I threw in all the buzz words I could think of.
> 
> fat process (fork) these are my bread and butter
> pthread (thin process), I don't do these yet

Heh, kinda funny to hear pthreads vs. fork() referred to as thin vs. fat
since (AFAIK) pthreads are implemented on Linux using "clone()" (which
is very much like fork()).  But I understand that its different on most
commercial Unixes...

I'm not keen in R/T apps per-se but would like to hear about your
experiences with threads and non-blocking IO.  I have some fork/exec and
pthreads experience--will have to go dig out my copy of Butenoff...  ;-)


> I am thinking about exposing my app to the world at sometime.  I'd like to 
> get it reviewed in a smaller group leading up to that point.  That's my 
> motivation to discuss r-t apps.

Cool.  What does it do?

Ed


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