[ECOS] Hurd, QNX and POSIX

[Jim Belton]

Stef wrote:

> Could ecos be the microkernel for the hurd, instead of mach ?

Ignoring the technical reasons, the answer is still no.  The GNU boys
wouldn't adopt eCos due to the ECPL.  They want to GPL the hurd.

> Is it comparable to qnx ?

It's more like QNX neutrino, which is the portable QNX RT kernel.

> Would it be difficult to port posix apps on ecos ?

This depends alot on what hardware you are running eCos on.  If you are
asking for the details of which POSIX APIs are supported, perhaps some
one else could post a link.  I'd like to know the answer to that as
well.  In particular, what level of POSIX.4/pthreads support is
available?

Hope this helps - Jim.