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Re: Question
- From: Jesper Skov <jskov at redhat dot com>
- To: Francesco Regazzoni <fregazzo at erasmus dot cdc dot polimi dot it>
- Cc: eCos Discuss <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 05 Feb 2002 11:56:07 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Question
- References: <3C5FCC0F.3DC6B96C@erasmus.cdc.polimi.it>
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 13:11, Francesco Regazzoni wrote:
> Dear anyone,
>
> We are two students. We read the user manual but we need some more
> detailed information about eCos, in particular, we would like to know
> how eCos manages dead-lines and how exactly work priority and event
> management, since we couldn't find them in the eCos manuals.
dead-lines? You mean dead-locks, right? Well, there's not much it can do
about it if the application code contains dead-locks. However, see this
page for some details about how the synchronization primitives provide
some protection against priority-inversion dead-locks:
http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/docs-latest/ref/ecos-ref.4.html#pgfId=1076147
Jesper