Instance name to Idle Task

Hi Rahul,

I don't know whether it is possible to replace the instance name "ti.sysbios.knl.Task.IdleTask" assigned to the SYS/BIOS Idle Task since this instance is created internally by the Task module.  Why would you like to do this?  There may exist only a single Idle task, so the likelihood of confusing this Task with another one should be minor.

Rregards,

Shreyas

Hi Shreyas,

Thank you for your reply. My application restricts to read only first 10 characters of the Task name. So, to have a meaningful name in my application I want to rename it with like "IdleTask".

Thanks,

Rahul

Rahul,
that Task is created very late in the configuration step, so you can't change its name in your config script. Then, at the runtime you can get a handle to any static instance but you can't change its name. I am posting the code that can get you a reference to the Task instance you are looking for, in case you can do something useful with it to overcome a long and unchangeable name. BTW, the functions I am using are documented here.

Int i;
Task_Handle tsk;

for (i = 0; i < Task_Object_count(); i++) {
    tsk = Task_Object_get(NULL, i);
    if (strcmp(Task_Handle_name(tsk), "ti.sysbios.knl.Task.IdleTask") == 0) {
        break;
    }
}

Rahul, just to add to Sasha's suggestion above, you can also use the Task_getIdleTask() function to specifically get a handle to the Idle task.

Regards,

Shreyas