I'm designing a library using POSIX that needs to sit on a few FDs and wake up when data is available. Just like select() and poll() have done for me for years. But now I gotta be ...

Issues with proprietary RTOS APIs. How does the POSIX pthread API stack up against proprietary APIs? Thread creation in POSIX. However, each proprietary API impedes embedded development by requiring ...

Solaris implements a two-level threads architecture (see August 1998’s column as well as subsequent columns covering the process model). The two-level model is implemented by abstracting the user ...

This is getting a touch annoying.<P>I'm using the Interix (library versions 2.2.428.0) with Win2K Advanced Server SP1.<P>Every now and then, psxss.exe crashes.<P>And Windows won't restart it. If I try ...

The original Portable Operating System Interface for Computing Environments (Posix) standard, first published in 1990, is based on Unix, a well-established technology dating back to the early 1970s.

To preserve the benefits of Linux as a development platform while addressing the need for customized versions of Linux, not to mention special-purpose non-Linux kernels, Red Hat Systems has taken a ...

To preserve the benefits of Linux as a development platform while addressing the need for customized versions of Linux, not to mention special-purpose non-Linux kernels, Red Hat Systems has taken a ...