Top "Vxworks" questions

VxWorks is a proprietary and customizable real-time operating system (RTOS) produced by Wind River.

What are all the differences between pipes and message queues?

What are all the differences between pipes and message queues? Please explain both from vxworks & unix perspectives. I think …

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BSP vs Device-Drivers

While understanding each by itself (or maybe not), looks like I'm far from understanding the practical differences between the two. …

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What makes VxWorks so deterministic and fast?

I worked on VxWorks 5.5 long time back and it was the best experience working on world's best real time OS. …

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Convert GetTickCount() vxWorks to Linux

I am porting some vxWorks code to Linux. I looked at this answer and it recommends CLOCK_MONOTONIC. Is that …

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Difference between exit and logout

Not sure it is related to VxWorks or to rlogin, but anyway. I read one should never use the exit …

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How can I write commands to the vxworks shell with a c program

If I wanted to run a shell command in linux with a c program, I would use system("ls"); Is …

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Task in vxworks

When we doing taskSpawn a task is creating in vxworks. What is actually a task. Is there any relation with …

linux multithreading operating-system vxworks
How does a VxWorks scheduler get executed?

Would like to know how the scheduler gets called so that it can switch tasks. As in even if its …

vxworks scheduler preemption
Simulating target on PC

I'm doing a project in C language that runs on a target with vxWorks operating system. I would like to …

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