Re: Self restarting property of RTOS-How it works?

From: Hank Oredson (horedson_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 06:50:24 GMT

"s.subbarayan" <s_subbarayan@rediffmail.com> wrote in message
news:c396173e.0502082037.54b8b7e@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
> While I appreciate your sincerity in replying,I would be happy if you
> avoid circausism in your reply.When I say task goes for a toss-this
> does not mean that always it goes to it,I was refering to the
> exceptional condition,such exceptional conditions do happen in
> biomedical world,if you could remember or read about THERMAC

Therac-25.
Not a computer problem per se, but often used as
an example of system failures due to design error.

> radioactive machines which failed due to some problem.While people
> take exceptional care for biomedical,some times human error do happen.
> I believe you are also human being to accept errors and no ones GOD
> here remember.
> Regards,
> s.subbarayan
>
>
>
> Tim Wescott <tim@wescottnospamdesign.com> wrote in message
> news:<110f5dul9b2grdc@corp.supernews.com>...
>> s_subbarayan@rediffmail.com wrote:
>>
>> snip
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>> > After restarting will the task start executing from the starting point
>> > or will execute from where it left?(that means continue executing,from
>> > the point where its terminated before restarting?).
>> >
>> >
>> > Incase it starts executing from scratch from the place where its
>> > spawned,will it not cause problems to my application?For eg,I am in
>> > middle of some biomedical application and some task goes for a toss
>>
>> snip
>>
>> >
>> Are you saying that it's acceptable in any way, shape or form for a task
>> in a biomedical application to "go for a toss"?

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