On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 12:44 AM, bharat naik<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was thinking of a making a simple modification to the > MultiHopEngineM.nc module for my project. I basically want to buffer data > packets, both forwarded and originated, when the parent fails and keep them > buffered till a new parent is found. > > However, I'm not sure what the MultiHopEngine is currently doing. > > Firstly, I am not able to understand why the return type of > ReceiveMsg.receive is TOS_MsgPtr? What it does is, from what I've > understood, forward intercepted packets, store them in a buffer and return > pointer to packet which it replaced in the buffer. What does it do with this > pointer?
Page 48 of this book goes into the details about why Receive returns a pointer to a TOS msg: http://csl.stanford.edu/~pal/pubs/tinyos-programming.pdf - om_p _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list [email protected] https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
