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

[yodaiken@fsmlabs.com]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:10:53AM -0700, John Regehr wrote:
> > 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.
>  

Thanks. We have a funny message to put out: on the one hand RTL 
programming requires some skill level but on the other hand, I don't want 
people to automatically assume you need to be a kernel hacker to write 
RTL code.

> John

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