The quest for compatibility and portability is a perpetual challenge in embedded systems. While many systems today have adopted real-time operating systems (RTOS), each is unique and different enough ...

Storage isn’t just storage. There is block storage, file storage and, more recently, object storage. And only two of those three are Posix-compliant. That’s not something most users ever need to know ...

Every RTOS has its own proprietary API, but some also support the POSIX standards. Here's a look at the parts of POSIX that apply to real-time systems. In today's computing systems, it is becoming ...

Issues with proprietary RTOS APIs. How does the POSIX pthread API stack up against proprietary APIs? Thread creation in POSIX. However, each proprietary API impedes embedded development by requiring ...

I'm doing a homework assignment where I have to write a C program for the "Producer-Consumer Problem". The answer jumps right out at me using pthreads and mutexes. However, we're instructed to use ...

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Greg Rose, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, DDC-I Inc. The FACE standards effort seeks to facilitate ...

Solaris implements a two-level threads architecture (see August 1998’s column as well as subsequent columns covering the process model). The two-level model is implemented by abstracting the user ...

IEEE and The Open Group have released POSIX version 1003.1-2024. The UNIX standard includes many extensions, new functions, options and tools. POSIX is divided into four parts. The basic definitions ...