On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Sven-Thorsten Dietrich wrote: > Therefore, it is inappropriate to qualify an operating system as hard or > soft RT without deadline context. It is. An OS is not hard real-time (capable) if it cannot guarantee you with 100% certainty to meet ANY hard dead-line. There is a philosophical side of this question, whether _any_ OS can guaratee that, but we don't want to discuss it here. Thanks Guennadi --------------------------------- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH Pascalstr. 28 D-52076 Aachen Germany - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html