On 8/20/12, Markus Klotzbuecher <markus [dot] klotzbuecher [..] ...> wrote:
>> We're not running into performance bottlenecks with ROS/CORBA; we have
>> not been able to get them to work with orocos yet after investing a
>> few days of dev time. We got operations working over CORBA, but not
>> ports. As for ROS, I think the infrastructure for ROS integration
>> just wasn't ready in the old orocos we're using; the stuff mentioned
>> in the online tutorials isn't there.
>
> Which version are you using? I think the ROS transport is the easiest
> option to get going and should offer sufficient performance for
> vizualiation.

server:
Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Ros Diamondback
OROCOS Toolchain version '2.4.0' ( GCC 4.4.3 )

laptop:
Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
Ros Electric
OROCOS Toolchain version '2.5.0' ( GCC 4.4.3 )

>> nfs might be better (maybe it even supports "select"); we have not
>> tried it yet.
>
> AFAIK calling select on regular files is not supported or will always
> return true.

You are correct; I tried NFS yesterday; indeed it does not support
select. There ~has to be something out there that does, though...

Thanks!
Andrew