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Sat, 03/06/2010 - 03:12
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I know that KISS-C is supposed to implement the "full ANSI C specification." Therefore, this may be a stupid question, but are any POSIX libraries implemented? Like, unistd.h, wait.h, etc.?

I've been mentoring Botball for a few years now and decided to buy myself a CBC. I'd like to have more powerful multitasking capabilities than those offered by start_process(), kill_process(), and defer().

Also, is hog_processor() still available in KISS-C for the CBCv2? And what's the maximum number of processes the CBC can have running?

Thanks!

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Sat, 03/06/2010 - 13:05
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The CBC uses GCC, so you can use any POSIX libraries. It uses the Linux kernel, and as far as I know there is no real limit on the number of threads or processes you can have running. (As far as POSIX threads go, I'm not sure about KISS-C's custom thread system)

I would highly recommending the Nease-Norman paper.


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