Re: [Tinyos-help] Receiving messages during execution on Tmote Sky

2006-01-19 Thread Andrea Pacini
NO, I didn't use any atomic statement. Just a normal receive: event TOS_MsgPtr ReceiveMessage.receive(TOS_MsgPtr m) { } but this event is not triggered when other mote sends a message. Michael Schippling wrote: you didn't put the for loop in an atomic{} block did you? That would shut off

Re: [Tinyos-help] Receiving messages during execution on Tmote Sky

2006-01-19 Thread Michael Schippling
someone else (phil?) already sent some better ideas about task (non-)pre-emption problems. My suggestion was about the code that you believe is blocking the receive In any case, assuming things are mostly the same as the micas', byte-by-byte reception should be occurring in an interrupt

Re: [Tinyos-help] Receiving messages during execution on Tmote Sky

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Schippling
you didn't put the for loop in an atomic{} block did you? That would shut off interrupts... MS Andrea Pacini wrote: I am using Tmote Sky motes and I noticed that , when a node is doing something (e.g. when it is doing a for cycle) it can't receive message, that is Receive.receive() event is

Re: [Tinyos-help] Receiving messages during execution on Tmote Sky

2006-01-18 Thread Cory Sharp
Tasks execute first-come first-serve, and each task executes to completion before the next task can begin. Execute to completion means that your task routine must return / exit. Long running and non-terminating tasks block all other tasks from executing. Receive.receive is signaled from within