Is there a hardened replacement for poll? If so, this can be modified
as a compile time option.

-Pieter

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Michael Haberler <[email protected]> wrote:
> having tried and failed, I can answer this myself:
>
> - the requirement for a Xenomai RT tasks is that no non-Xenomai-hardened 
> system calls are invoked directly or indirectly from an RT task
> - however, even in non-blocking mode, zmq_recvmsg() will indirectly invoke 
> poll() through signaler.wait(timeout_) which is incompatible with the above 
> requirement.
>
> summary: you cannot use libzmq from Xenomai RT tasks.
>
> ---
>
> There are ways around this, but they make the point of a single, generic 
> interface abstraction a bit moot.
>
> Still, the underlying ipipe mechanism with lockfree queues would be the 
> perfect vehicle to use in this case, but I'm unusure how to reuse that code 
> directly.
>
> - Michael
>
> live from the 'ZMQ Esoteric Usescases Laboratory'
>
> Am 09.11.2012 um 12:26 schrieb Michael Haberler:
>
>> I am considering a setup of several threads cooperating through inproc queues
>>
>> one of those threads must be hard-realtime, with the option of using 
>> RT_PREEMPT or Xenomai userland threads ; a polling interface to queues 
>> from/to the RT thread is good enough, blocking wait is not needed
>>
>>
>> I'd appreciated feedback if anybody has ever tried this / is interested in 
>> this with the Xenomai Posix skin (the RT_PREEMPT options seems relatively 
>> safe to do)
>>
>> - Michael
>>
>>
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