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. Support TriLUG. Reply directly for details on how to send a check. No amount is too small. Subscribe to all the TriLUG lists at http://trilug.org/mailman/listinfo
