On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Sven-Thorsten Dietrich wrote:

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 12:02 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

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As long as your non-realtime tasks are allowed to take locks, that also 

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prevent real-time tasks from preempting them, and as long as you haven't 
proved that all those locks in all your non-realtime sources can never 
under any circumstances last longer than your pre-defined limit, it is not 
a hard-realtime OS.

So you're talking about a property of the application !!!

Wrong emphasis. Here's what is meant:

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As long as your non-realtime tasks are allowed to take locks, that also 

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prevent real-time tasks from preempting them, and as long as you haven't 

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH
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Germany