Re: GSOC-2018 POSIX Compliance and Introduction

[Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems dot org>]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 2:09 PM, Salil Sirotia <salil.sirotia@gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Hello Users
>
> This is Salil Sirotia, an M.Tech Scholar from IIT(ISM) Dhanbad. I applied
> for GSOC 2018 and got selected. My project is POSIX Compliance where I have
> to implement some libraries, methods and port the code to Newlib-Cygwin.
>
> POSIX stands for Portable Operating System Interface for uni-X. Posix
> Compliance allows us to port the source code that is running on one machine
> , can be run on another machine. This Project deals with the implementation
> of the subset of functions that are defined in POSIX 1003_1 standard, Due
> to physical resource constraints, some real-time systems like the small
> embedded system needs a limited set of operating system functionality. For
> these type of systems, it is necessary that the standard allow the
> implementation to support only a particular subset of POSIX functions.
> POSIX profiles defined in FACE Technical Standards, designed for avionics
> system verses POSIX in RTEMS where some functions are missing. These
> missing function need to be implemented. For the same I will use FreeBSD,
> NetBSD, POSIX 1003_1 as a refrence and IEEE std 1003.1 TM 2008.
> I will add the support of mentioned library in my Proposal to newlib as a
> part of GSOC-2018.
>
> This summer I will be accomplishing these task what I have mentioned in my
> Proposal
>

This is one of my pet projects and I look forward to you making great
progress.

What do you plan to do first?

--joel


>
> Thanks & regards,
> Salil Sirotia,
> Mtech,CSE-IS(Final Year),
> IIT(ISM),Dhanbad
>