Support for logging mailboxes

[Paolo Mantegazza]

"grenoldi at libero.it" wrote:
> 
> I have an application in which I use a mailbox as a buffer log for
> messages originated from a kernel task.
> The kernel task now uses a modified printf that, once the message is
> created, puts it in the mailbox calling a rt_mbx_send_wp, to avoid
> being blocked.
> When I want to see the sent messages, I run a user space application
> that gets what there is in the mailbox and prints it out or simply
> display the messages.
> The problem is that once the mailbox is filled out I loose any new
> message I send and what I can display are only the old ones.
> Is it possible to have something like an rt_mbx_send_overwrite
> function that automatically makes space for the new bytes, deleting
> the old ones if the mailbox is filled, like having a forward sliding
> message window?
> 

It is not "rt_mbx_send_overwrite" but "rt_mbx_ovrwr_send" and is already
available in 24.1.10. The same functionality has been added to FIFOs
after releasing 24.1.10, so for FIFOs it is just in the CVS.

Paolo.