Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:53:55 +0200 (SAST) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: Uptime timer-wrap |
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On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Do you have an idea where to look? I need to prevent the possibility > of waiting forever for an event that may never occur, with interrupts > disabled, on at least one embedded system. Any wait-forever possibility > must be interruptible because any watch-dog timer that re-boots will end > up destroying data that must never be lost.
Remove the 'wait forever' (really if you're waiting forever you have a bug anyway, be it hardware or otherwise) and break the entire kernel? Or perhaps sprinkle timeouts in every little crevice of the kernel code.
Zwane
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