Thanks - we're making Nicholas Mcguire put all these together. On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:54:54PM -0400, Calin A. Culianu wrote: > > This is a patch I submitted months ago. It lets you find out size > information on an rt fifo by way of two new ioctls: > > IOCTL_RTF_GET_BUFSIZE : returns the size of the fifo buffer (its maximal > capacity) > > IOCTL_RTF_GET_FREE : returns the number of bytes free in the fifo > buffer > > I found that this patch is useful for people that are concerned with > monitoring the amount of dropped information between the rt-task and the > user task in case one is too fast or too slow for the other. It also > helps make code kind of simpler by allowing you to figure out how big a > buffer you should read() into when reading off a fifo. (So as to avoid > reading() too many times). > > I have tested it and it works.. please advise if it passes your quality > criteria and/or if it makes it into the next version. > > > -Calin > > > On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > The much delayed 3.2 release is in the works. This will not add > > major changes, but will collect many of the patches sent to this list > > and whatever else seems interesting. > > > > If you have materials you want included > > core code and patches > > drivers > > docs and doc translations > > short notes on your projects > > > > Please email links and data to this list or to me directly. > > > > My intention is to also make the long promised transition to BitKeeper > > on this release. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Victor Yodaiken > > Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux Company. > > www.fsmlabs.com www.rtlinux.com > > > > -- [rtl] --- > > To unsubscribe: > > echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR > > echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > > For more information on Real-Time Linux see: > > http://www.rtlinux.org/ > >
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