Event Details

• A major difference from traditional operating system events is

  • All tasks currently blocked on the event are unblocked when the event occurs (as opposed to the event being “delivered” to a particular handler.
  • More than one task can block waiting for the event
  • tasks can wait on groups of events. any event in the group will cause the task to be unblocked.
  • method of clearing the event varies with RTOSes