On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:39:59 +0100 "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Montag, 25. Februar 2008 10:10:56 schrieb Sharad Chandra: > > So does it mean, freebsd has limitation. sleeping will only work > > for its value more than 1 milli sec because % of +- error value is > > comparitivly low? I am curious to know, is there any method which > > sleeps for few microseconds. Some one please give me link where to > > look for "select". > > No, this does not mean that FreeBSD has a limitation, but rather that > FreeBSD is not a real-time operating system. You'll see the similar > behaviour on pretty much any other operating system that is _not_ a > RTOS It's actually not a distinguishing feature of RTOSs. I haven't worked on them for a few years, but when I did, both pSOS and VxWorks had this limitation. The important thing is that RTOSs handle interrupts well. In traditional real-time software, sleeping is something that happens in non-critical background tasks. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
