Early experience with POSIX 1003.4 and POSIX 1003.4 A

Author

Gallmeister, Bill O. ; Lanier, Chris

Author_Institution

Lynx Real-Time Syst., Los Gatos, CA, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

4-6 Dec 1991

Firstpage

190

Lastpage

198

Abstract

Two proposed IEEE standards for real-time operating systems support, POSIX.4 and POSIX.4a, are proceeding towards IEEE approval and will eventually become international standards. The authors provide a brief overview of the facilities of POSIX.4 and POSIX.4a. They concentrate on a few of the critical features that POSIX.4 and POSIX.4a provide and describe the POSIX.4 scheduling interface. The POSIX.4a support for multiple threads of control is also described. The features found in POSIX.4 and POSIX.4a for synchronization of multiple threads, are discussed, and the POSIX.4 interprocess communication facility is presented. The performance numbers are given to allow comparisons of the facilities of traditional Unix systems, the facilities of a representative hard real-time system (LynxOS), and the facilities of POSIX.4 and POSIX.4a

Keywords

Unix; real-time systems; scheduling; standards; IEEE approval; LynxOS; POSIX.4; POSIX.4a; hard real-time system; international standards; interprocess communication facility; multiple threads; performance numbers; proposed IEEE standards; real-time operating systems support; scheduling interface; synchronization; traditional Unix systems; Communication system control; Contracts; Government; Job shop scheduling; Operating systems; Proposals; Real time systems; Space stations; Testing; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real-Time Systems Symposium, 1991. Proceedings., Twelfth

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2450-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/REAL.1991.160373

Filename

160373