Timers in a task context

[Sebastian Huber]

On 10/04/18 11:11, Matthew J Fletcher wrote:
> It looks like a difference in operation to say, for example ThreadX, 
> who's tx_thread_identify() function is documented similarly "If this 
> service is called from an ISR the return value represents the thread 
> running prior to the executing interrupt handler", however in 
> operation in ThreadX there is no non-service, or raw timer interrupt 
> handler, so it always returns the previous 'user' threads task.

These timer routines executing in the context of a particular thread 
look more like a signal. You could use a timer and then send a signal to 
a task in RTEMS. However, I would not use signals in RTEMS due to their 
implementation (there is a potential infinite recursion).

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