[LITMUS^RT] Base_task when executed does not give the correct debug output as rtspin does

[Björn Brandenburg]

> On 8. Mar 2018, at 09:31, Susan S <susanrosethomas2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am new to litmus-rt. I am trying to study the flow of the GSN-EDF , so analyzed the rtspin output using the debug file by using command "cat /dev/litmus/log > debug.txt &".
> 
> This debug.txt of rtspin gives the correct flow of gsnedf scheduler.But when i wrote a job in base_task and executed the output debug file doesnot contain the contents as for rtspin.
> 
> I want to know if only rtspin can be used for testing the scheduler functions or is there any other method by which I can test my application program with the litmus-rt schedulers.

Any task that uses the LITMUS^RT API should work fine. There is nothing special about rtspin.

> 
> Since there is limited help from my institute please do guide me how to test a simple program and verify its output for different schedulers.

Happy to help, but without knowing your code and how exactly you launched the processes and any output there’s not much that we can say. If you can share additional details, we can take a look. 

- Björn