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

[M. Mueller (bhu5nji)]

On Monday 25 February 2002 02:24 pm, you wrote:
> 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...

That's the kind of stuff I like to learn.  My knowledge stem from Stevens who 
was Unix agnostic AFAIK.  He sometimes points out implementational details 
like the one you mention above.

>
> 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? 

www.signalnetware.com

95% of my app needs to be OS to bring comfort to wary users.  We all know 
that feeling :-/ It's quite a different way to do business.  I am learning as 
I go.  I only charge for 5% of the app and I don't charge alot.  I'm thinking 
about going unlimited license to educational concerns.

>
> Ed

-- 
Mike  M.

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