On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 13:31 +0100, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> Philippe Gerum wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 13:16 +0100, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> >> I was not talking about the Xenomai case specifically, but since Henri
> >> would like to have the full signals implementation with Xenomai, this
> >> does a apply to Xenomai too.
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > I think we all agree that having a complete signal implementation for
> > Xenomai in pure rt mode won't happen overnight. So the point is now: how
> > could it be mimicked, at least for the most useful part.
> > 
> 
> My point is that whatever you do, a switch user-kernel, then kernel-user
> is not going to be lightweight, so avoiding it in the application in the
> first place may be a better idea.

Sometimes you can't decide what the application code wants, that is the
issue.

> 
> My aim with implementing complete signals was rather for things like
> timer_* and mq_notify, where the interface requires them, I did not even
> imagine implementing SIGFPE, SIGILL, SIGTRAP, which I thought could not
> be time critical anyway, for the reasons explained earlier. So, my
> question (rather to Henri) is: what would we need SIGFPE, SIGILL,
> SIGTRAP in an real-time application for?
> 

-- 
Philippe.



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