Re: [ECOS] EL/IX discussion

[ANDRE Sebastien <sebastien dot andre at sxb dot bsf dot alcatel dot fr>]

Hello,

Thanks, yes i see that eCos is a single process system with a complete thread
activity gestion !!
it's not a major problem for us but now we must see with caution
what EL/IX level 1 functions we need and if we can use it !

So our goal is to ports few POSIX.1 applications ( Linux world applications) into
eCos and  e don't know yet all features we need in POSIX functions.

best regards
ANDRE Sébastien.

Bart Veer a écrit :

> >>>>> "Andre" == ANDRE Sebastien <sebastien.andre@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> writes:
>
>     Andre> So, i see that the current implementation of EL/IX Layer
>     Andre> under eCos work only at level 1 (without all functions)
>
>     Andre> So i want know if because it we can't create more than 1
>     Andre> processus !? and if in 1 processus we can create
>     Andre> differrents threads ?
>
> eCos was designed for systems where there is a single process
> containing multiple threads. In other words pthread_create() is
> supported, but not fork() or execve(). If you need multiple processes
> then you will need an OS that supports higher levels of EL/IX, for
> example some embedded Linux variant.
>
> Similarly, if you want to develop an application for Linux with the
> eventual goal of porting it to eCos, you need to restrict yourself to
> the appropriate level of EL/IX functionality.
>
> Bart