[ECOS] Microwindows on eCos

[Gary Thomas]

On 12-Apr-2001 §º©yèû wrote:
> Hi,
>  In the microwidows-eCos over iPaq port, I have several questions:
>     1. In ecos/nanox_thread.c (I assume it is the main nano-x server
> thread),
>         the code appears that nothing but the nanox_main() is called, but I
> can't find its implementation anywhere.

It's created by magic using #define in the Makefiles.

>     2. The original client/server IPC mechanism used in microwindows is Unix
> domain socket+Sys V shared memory
>         but what's the IPC mechanism used in the eCos port? TCP/IP socket?

Normal socket I/O over the loopback network.

>     3. What is the job of sytem threads in the port?
>  Or is there any documentations about that port?

The rest are used by the TCP/IP stack.