INtime® 3.1 Software - tenAsys

Appendix A: INtime software system calls
Processes
NTX calls
System call
ntxCreateRtProcess
ntxRegisterDependency
ntxUnregisterDependency
ntxRegisterSponsor
ntxUnregisterSponsor
ntxNotifyEvent
Description
Creates a process.
Creates a dependency relationship between the calling process
and the specified sponsor.
Removes the dependency relationship between the calling
process and the specified sponsor.
Registers the calling process as a Sponsor with the given name.
Removes the current sponsor name from the active sponsor
state.
Blocks until one of the desired notifications has been received.
High-level calls
System call
ExitRtProcess
RegisterRtDependency
UnregisterRtDependency
RegisterRtSponsor
UnregisterRtSponsor
Description
Deletes the current process, all of the process' threads, and all
objects created by the threads.
Looks up the name in the sponsor list and creates a dependency
relationship to that sponsor process.
Removes the dependency relationship from the database between
the RT process and the Windows sponsor registered with the given
name.
Allows the RT process to register as a sponsor under the given
name.
Removes the RT process registered as a sponsor from the
database.
Regions
High-level calls
System call
CreateRtRegion
DeleteRtRegion
AcceptRtControl
WaitForRtControl
ReleaseRtControl
Description
Creates a region object.
Deletes a region object.
Receives ownership of a region object only if it is
immediately available.
Gains ownership of a region. This function blocks until the
current owner gives up the region.
Releases this thread’s most recently obtained region object.
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