Daemons

A daemon is a process running in the background. In NuttX a daemon process is a task, in POSIX (Linux / Mac OS) a daemon is a thread.

New daemons are created through the px4_task_spawn_cmd() command.

daemon_task = px4_task_spawn_cmd("commander",
                 SCHED_DEFAULT,
                 SCHED_PRIORITY_DEFAULT + 40,
                 3600,
                 commander_thread_main,
                 (char * const *)&argv[0]);

The arguments here are:

• arg0: the process name, commander
• arg1: the scheduling type (RR or FIFO)
• arg2: the scheduling priority
• arg3: the stack size of the new process or thread
• arg4: the task / thread main function
• arg5: a void pointer to pass to the new task, in this case holding the commandline arguments.