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Re: Very strange problems
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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Sun, 21 May 2000 19:42:05 GMT
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On Sun, 21 May 2000, Michael J Ash wrote:
> On Sun, 21 May 2000, Luis Villa wrote:
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> > Just that it is not pre-emptive. If you don't msleep() at the appropriate
> > places in your code, you'll never go back to the scheduler or the other
> > threads. This can come as a surprise, since you'll only notice it when
> > one thread never executes.
> > Luis
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> Ack! I knew that it was cooperative in the 0.1.x series, but I had thought
> it was preemptive in 0.2.x. Drat. Well, I don't think it's a major problem
> for me, since I call msleep() religiously, but it's something to look
> into. Thanks.
I have not done large-scale "production" work with 0.2.x, really, so I
may be vastly incorrect. Ah-hah. The legOS homepage (at least) indicates
that you are correct. My fault for scaring people... sorry.
Luis
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| (...) Ah, that's all right, happens to the best of us. :) I'll go back to my happy little preemptive world. -- "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare Mike Ash - (URL), (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Ack! I knew that it was cooperative in the 0.1.x series, but I had thought it was preemptive in 0.2.x. Drat. Well, I don't think it's a major problem for me, since I call msleep() religiously, but it's something to look into. Thanks. -- "Our (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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