BOUNCE rtl@rtlinux.org: Non-member submission from [David Olofson<david.olofson@reologica.se>] (fwd)

[Der Herr Hofrat <der.herr@hofr.at>]

On Saturday 30 June 2001 22:20, Bond, Richard M wrote:
> David,
> I have a trick I've used under some RT OS's. I've created an environment
> variable to make a single value available. For examples I could set
> NSAMPLES=2000, and any task can request the value to use to control
> something. It's cheap and only a little dirty!

Kind of neat, actually, except that there's only one namespace - *very* 
global, that is. :-)

Anyway, might be interesting to implement the environment variable API under 
RTL... API module + user space proxy daemon would probably be the easiest 
way.


//David Olofson --- Programmer, Reologica Instruments AB

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