On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Robin Gareus <robin(a)gareus.org> wrote:
> Aside of that, what about locks? I've many
times been told that one mustn't do
> anything that could block in a realtime thread. What are the consequences of
> that? Could a malicious app freeze the system by blocking in a realtime thread?
it poses no risks to anything except itself if it does that. blocking
in an RT thread matters to the thread, not to anything else.
to demote RT threads that are doing too much you'd need a user-space
watchdog like das_watchdog