[ECOS] Re: Hurd, QNX and POSIX
Bart Veer
bartv@cygnus.co.uk
Tue Sep 28 07:23:00 GMT 1999
>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Belton <jhb@microplex.com> writes:
>> Would it be difficult to port posix apps on ecos ?
Jim> This depends alot on what hardware you are running eCos on.
Jim> If you are asking for the details of which POSIX APIs are
Jim> supported, perhaps some one else could post a link. I'd like
Jim> to know the answer to that as well. In particular, what level
Jim> of POSIX.4/pthreads support is available?
The current eCos release does not provide a POSIX compatibility layer.
However Cygnus has just announced the EL/IX initiative, and as part of
this initiative we will be implementing a significant subset of POSIX
on top of eCos. For more details please see
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/elix/
Bart Veer // eCos net maintainer
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