Every RTOS has its own proprietary API, but some also support the POSIX standards. Here's a look at the parts of POSIX that apply to real-time systems. In today's computing systems, it is becoming ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition, is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. Offering detailed ...

I have an object that maintains a number of internal pthreads. In the object destructor, I want to kill any running internal threads. The thread executing the destructor will not be one of these ...