Dear Sir, I am glad to inform you about the release of RTL-POSIXTRACE (RTL-PT) 1.0, which is a POSIX standard tracing system integrated in Open RT-Linux 3.1. The RTL-PT system is free software, under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 (or any later published by the Free Software Foundation). Please find a description of this system below.
If interested, you can download the RTL-PT 1.0 package from the following URL: http://bernia.disca.upv.es/rtportal/index.shtml Yours sincerely, Andrés Terrasa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. DESCRIPTION ----------- The POSIX Trace standard, which RTL-PT 1.0 conforms, establishes a set of portable interfaces for tracing applications. This standard has been included in the last revision of the POSIX suite of standards, approved by both the IEEE Standards Board and the Open Group under the name "1003.1(TM) Standard for Information Technology--Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) (Base Specifications, Issue 6)". In short, the Trace standard allows both applications and the operating system to define new event types and to trace events belonging to these types whenever necessary. These events are stored in some memory structures until they are either retrieved by another process or permanently stored in a log file. The analysis of such events becomes a very valuable tool for testing, debugging, tuning, etc., the application and the operating system itself. RTL-PT 1.0 has been designed to maintain the conformance with the standard but also to meet the RT-Linux philosophy. On the one hand, this means that only a subset of the standard is actually supported, the subset that we think most compatible with RT-Linux (that is, a small real-time kernel that follows the POSIX Minimal Realtime System Profile model). But, on the other hand, the adaptation has also extended the standard in order to permit both real-time tasks and Linux processes to trace and retrieve events concurrently. The RTL-PT 1.0 package contains software and documentation. The software is a patch to the Open RT-Linux 3.1 distribution. The documentation includes an installation guide plus a couple of PDF documents, one describing the standard itself and another one explaining how to use the RTL-PT 1.0 system. _______________________________________________ Rtl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www2.fsmlabs.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rtl
