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 ...

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 ...

We’ve all grown up in a world of digital filing cabinets. POSIX I/O has enabled code portability and extraordinary advances in computation, but it is limited by its design and the way it mirrors the ...

With a share of 70 percent of the embedded market, embedded Linux is one the most popular embedded OS platforms. However, embedded Linux is too memory and processing-intensive for resource-constrained ...

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 ...

Distributed file system developer Alluxio Inc. today added interfaces to Posix and Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 storage to its open-source Data Orchestration Platform, in a bid to make it easier for ...

The access controls typically support inheritance along the lines of the directory hierarchy. We will not delve into all these details but restrict the discussion to the differences of the three ...