December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
534 pages
14h 57m
English
8.1 FreeRTOS Threads and Processes
The previous chapter discussed the interprocess communication primitives available to the user of a “full-fledged” operating system that supports the POSIX standard at the Application Programming Interface (API) level. Since those operating systems were initially intended for general-purpose computers, one of their main goals is to put at the user’s disposal a rich set of high-level primitives, meant to be powerful and convenient to use.
At the same time, they must also deal with multiple applications, maybe pertaining to different users, ...
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