On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Sven-Thorsten Dietrich wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 12:02 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > As long as your non-realtime tasks are allowed to take locks, that also > ^^^^^ > > prevent real-time tasks from preempting them, and as long as you haven't > > proved that all those locks in all your non-realtime sources can never > > under any circumstances last longer than your pre-defined limit, it is not > > a hard-realtime OS. > > So you're talking about a property of the application !!! Wrong emphasis. Here's what is meant: > > As long as your non-realtime tasks are allowed to take locks, that also ^^^^^^^^^^^ > > prevent real-time tasks from preempting them, and as long as you haven't 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