default behavior for thread overrun

[Todd]

Originally Posted by RyanCahoon

I believe (pretty certain for C++, slightly less so for Java) that threads are mapped onto VxWorks threads (called tasks).

I'm far from a VxWorks expert, but if the above is true, then from my experience if you wanted something like a task monitor in C++ that tracked task overrun and decided what to do when a task overran, you'd have to implement it yourself.