Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 01:58:58 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com>, Freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Subject: Re: corporate announcement Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010406015658.04439ea0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010406012504.46990H-100000@fledge.watson.o rg> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010405160153.00e5b4d0@localhost>
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At 11:25 PM 4/5/2001, Robert Watson wrote: >My understanding is that that was a result of an application bug rather >than the OS, and had to do with a priority inversion. RTOSes are supposed to recognize and handle priority inversion problems. I think it was Jack Crenshaw who wrote about the algorithms for this in Embedded Systems programming not long ago. Of course, badly written applications can fail despite the OS's attempts to set things right.... --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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