juku_59 wrote on Tuesday, March 09, 2010:
Yes, and the tick count is also available. However, I need to do things like starting a process that should be ready in two seconds. When doing that, I want the starting task to continue; I’ll just set up a timer to send back a message after two seconds. If I get a message from the new process, I stop the timer and handle the new results. If I get a message from the timer, I’ll do error handling.
I know FreeRTOS does not (yet 
) have this kind of services, but these can be readily created on top of it. As noted, I can write the timer code (timer task?) myself if I need to, but if there is something like this already, I rather not re-invent a wheel.