Re: [rtl] RTL + Low Latency patch interference?

[John Regehr <regehr@cs.utah.edu>]

> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:17:00AM -0700, John Regehr wrote:
> > The point is that real-time applications have widely varying
> > requirements and, as people have been discussing recently, not everybody
> > wants to stuff their app into the more restricted and difficult
> > enviroment.
> 
> I want to point out that (A) RTLinux programming environment is not so
> difficult and 

I agree that it's not that hard, but it does raise the bar somewhat.  
The user/kernel boundary is there for a reason, after all: to prevent
buggy applications from corrupting each other or the system, and to make
it possible to reclaim all resources when an app terminates abnormally.

That said, the real-time signals in RTLinux 3 look really cool, and they
are a nice step towards providing a friendlier programming model.
 
John