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  From: Daryl Tester <Daryl.Tester@steadycom.com.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:48:27 +0930 (CST)

Re: Linux in real time (was More Meeting Information)

Andrew Pullin wrote:

> I have been talking to a few people at Flinders Uni about
> this a bit, but they all have told me that standard Unix (or Linux or BSD
> etc), while it _can_ run processes as a real time application, it was not
> designed to do this, and that dedicated real time operating systems should
> be used (like RT Unix I think it is called that is a Real Time version of
> Unix).

While this is true of standard Unixes, Linux (and possibly BSD) has real
time extensions that enable you to adjust the scheduling policy of a
process.  man 2 sched_setscheduler for a plethora of information ...

 
Cheers
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