On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 02:49:41PM -0400, Mauricio A. Araya L?pez wrote: > I have some experience working on RTAI, and I am trying to do > something similar to a RT_FIFO. Which is the best method to have a > FIFO queue between a real-time process and a non real-time process. > Maybe a pipe is enough, or msgget, or directly have a shared memory > space, etc... Any comment will be very welcome! If your communication is message oriented, you can use POSIX Message Queues. However, you can surely also use any other kind of other method, as long as you don't lock shared ressources for too long. Robert -- Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 Hannoversche Str. 2, 31134 Hildesheim, Germany Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-9 -- 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