[plug] Scheduling Problems

[Steve Baker]

The obvious solution is to fork off 100 children to monitor the port - if
they each have a 10ms time slice then one of them should pick up the data
instantly! ;-)

bakes
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-----Original Message-----
From: Denis Brown <dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au>
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Date: Thursday, 18 May 2000 14:20
Subject: Re: [plug] Scheduling Problems


>Brad and list,
>
>Would "nice" help, by assigning your process a higher priority?
>
>Alternatively, would it be reasonable to fork a child process after the
>port write?  The child reads the serial port result and returns it to the
>parent.  Enough time lapse during fork for the data to become available?
>
>Cheers,
>Denis
>