Symbolic links are a mechanism to make one pathname be an alias for another. One would think that there would be little value in an empty symbolic link — one where the destination pathname is the ...

IEEE and The Open Group have released POSIX version 1003.1-2024. The UNIX standard includes many extensions, new functions, options and tools. POSIX is divided into four parts. The basic definitions ...

I have some windows source code that I need to port over to QNX, which is a POSIX compliant real time OS. This is the first time I've done any Windows porting or any porting at all, actually. So far, ...

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 ...

Symbian is hoping to encourage developers to offer interesting desktop applications on mobile phones by making it easier for them to certain port desktop applications to the Symbian operating system.

One might well think that, at this point, there has been sufficient discussion of the design decisions built into the ext4 "delayed allocation" feature and the user-space implications of those ...