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[Task Utilities]

void vTaskSetTimeOutState( TimeOut_t * const pxTimeOut );

This function is intended for advanced users only.

A task can enter the Blocked state to wait for an event. Typically, the task will not wait in the Blocked state indefinitely, but instead a timeout period will be specified. The task will be removed from the Blocked state if the timeout period expires before the event the task is waiting for occurs.

If a task enters and exits the Blocked state more than once while it is waiting for the event to occur then the timeout used each time the task enters the Blocked state must be adjusted to ensure the total of all the time spent in the Blocked state does not exceed the originally specified timeout period. xTaskCheckForTimeOut() performs the adjustment, taking into account occasional occurrences such as tick count overflows, which would otherwise make a manual adjustment prone to error.

vTaskSetTimeOutState() is used with xTaskCheckForTimeOut(). vTaskSetTimeOutState() is called to set the initial condition, after which xTaskCheckForTimeOut() can be called to check for a timeout condition, and adjust the remaining block time if a timeout has not occurred.

pxTimeOut   A pointer to a structure that will be initialized to hold information necessary to determine if a timeout has occurred.
Example usage:

An example is provided on the xTaskCheckForTimeOut() documentation page.



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