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Re: The BrickOS Task Manager
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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Sat, 10 Jan 2004 04:25:18 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, Joseph Woolley wrote:
> IIRC the issue was that Task, Process and Thread were all used to
> represent the same item/concept in the Kernel code.
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> After some discussion, it was decided that the word Task would be used
> in all cases. This improves readability, etc... (ie. Task Manager)
Sorry, I'm still just not getting it at all. I have type errors all over the
place trying to pass arguments to my task. Could someone please simply email me
or post an example of a program that starts, runs two or more threads, and will
actually compile?
Thanks very much,
Mike
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 | | Re: The BrickOS Task Manager
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| (...) This works. Steve ---- #include <unistd.h> #include <dbutton.h> #include <dmotor.h> int MotorSpeed = 0; int RunMotor() { while (!shutdown_requested()) { motor_a_dir(MotorSpeed); } return 0; } int CheckButton() { while (!shutdown_requested()) { (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: The BrickOS Task Manager
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| IIRC the issue was that Task, Process and Thread were all used to represent the same item/concept in the Kernel code. After some discussion, it was decided that the word Task would be used in all cases. This improves readability, etc... (ie. Task (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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