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Re: beginner question
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>
- To: taraben dot a at wige-data dot de
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 09:47:28 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] beginner question
- References: <3D58B7BA.6010409@wige-data.de>
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:39:38AM +0200, taraben.a@wige-data.de wrote:
> After reading all the documents it seems to me that in eCos a
> application is linked to the OS (eCos).
> Does that mean that under eCos is only ONE proccess runnable??
Nope. 0 processes :-)
eCos uses the thread model, not the process model. You can have as
many threads as you want.
You cannot dynamically add or remove application code, like you can on
a Unix OS. You link the entire system once and run that as a whole. If
you want to add a new application, you link it in and reboot to the
new image. For deeply embedded systems, this is the more appropriate
model.
Andrew
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