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Process Creation and Execution Manager Background

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1.2: Background

POSIX process functionality can not be completely supported by RTEMS. This is because RTEMS provides no memory protection and implements a single process, multi-threaded execution model. In this light, RTEMS provides none of the routines that are associated with the creation of new processes. However, since the entire RTEMS application (e.g. executable) is logically a single POSIX process, RTEMS is able to provide implementations of many operations on processes. The rule of thumb is that those routines provide a meaningful result. For example, getpid() returns the node number.


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