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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most UNIX systems use the standard POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) permissions when managing access to files. Standard POSIX permissions are independent of which file system they are used ...