Re: [rtl] RTAI and RTLinux

[yodaiken@fsmlabs.com]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 12:50:50PM +0200, kissg@sztaki.hu wrote:
> 
> > The solution of having a cache on the RT side does not make the system
> > deterministic. What may become deterministic is that a yes/no result is 
> > in bounded time. But what remains is that the thread depending on this
> > system is now non-deterministic in operation.
> > 
> > This is not necessarily terrible, note that rtfifos to user processes
> > force a more limited type of nondeterminism -- but this is in a context where
> > a deterministic RT thread connects to a non-deterministc process.  
> 
> Dear Victor,
> 
> What do you mean "deterministic" exactly?
> 

Operation of the system does not depend on anything other than its inputs.


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