Hi Herman,
Herman Bruyninckx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> In the documentation of rtlv3.0 (test 9) I read:
> pthread_make_periodic_np : ``[...]If the period is equal to 0, the
> task will be released once at the start_time.[...]''
> (This sounds like one shot timer programming?)
>
> On the other hand, the code in schedulers/rtl_sched.c says:
I guess nobody used this one-shot mode with RTLinux yet.
> int pthread_make_periodic_np (pthread_t p, hrtime_t start_time,
> hrtime_t period)
> {
> rtl_irqstate_t interrupt_state;
> if (period <= 0) {
> return EINVAL;
> }
>
> [...]
>
> which indicates that a period equal to 0 returns an error...
>
> Is this an accidental inconsistency between code and documentation, or
> a misinterpretation by me?
We can interpret it either way:) I'd say, scheduler needs to be fixed
to check for period < 0, not <=0.
Thanks for the note!
Michael.
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