Nivedita Singhvi <niv@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> >> It does not matter whether one system can run circles around the >> other one as long as any given circle can't be guaranteed to complete >> in a specified amount of time. > > Right -- but the point was, any HW system can fail, too (very, very > low statistically speaking, but still not 0%). So no system is > impervious to all sources of breakage. A hardware failure means that the system is in violation of the system design. A soft realtime failure means that reality is in violation of the system design. You can't shift the blame to another department by claiming that a mistake could have happened there as well. -- David Kastrup -- 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
