[Tinyos-8051wg] Re: [Tinyos-2.0wg] Timer.fired

[Joe Polastre]

No, an interrupt occurs, the Timer says "we haven't missed anything"
and now the result is bad.  You're operating under the assumption that
Phil and I know the line by line code details of the Timer (which I
certainly will never quite understand), whereas we're just trying to
point out the potential for some pretty nasty race conditions.

-Joe

On 5/19/05, Cory Sharp <cory.sharp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/19/05, Joe Polastre <joe.polastre at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Except if an underlying interrupt occurred from an Alarm while I was
> > asking (in task context) how many timers I missed.
> 
> I don't understand.  What are you and Phil thinking is going to happen
> in this case that's bad?  An interrupt occurs and another task is
> posted...
> 
> Cory
>

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