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NOTE: FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX is a FreeRTOS Labs project provided in the hope that it is useful. It is not a complete pthreads implementation, and does not necessary meet our production code quality standard. FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX is provided in the Lab-Project-FreeRTOS-POSIX repository on GitHub.

FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX
Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX threading wrapper) for FreeRTOS


On this page:

  1. Introduction
  2. Pre-configured example project
  3. Supported features
  4. FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX source code organisation
  5. Dependencies
  6. Developer references and API documentation
  7. Porting
  8. Code Size

 

Introduction

The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems. FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX implements a small subset of the POSIX threading API. This subset allows application developers familiar with POSIX API to develop a FreeRTOS application using POSIX like threading primitives. FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX only implements about 20% of the POSIX API. Therefore, an existing POSIX compliant application or a POSIX compliant library cannot be ported to run on FreeRTOS Kernel using only this wrapper.


FreeRTOS Architecture Description
Location of FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX when used with FreeRTOS libraries

 

Example Pre-configure Project

The FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX pre-configured example is provided in a separate zip file download.

 

Currently Supported Features

FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX partially implements IEEE Std 1003.1-2017 Edition The Open Group Technical Standard Base Specifications, Issue 7. FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX includes implementations for the following POSIX threading header files - please refer to the FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX API documentation for specifics on the features supported within each header file:

  • errno.h
  • fcntl.h
  • mqueue.h
  • pthread.h
  • sched.h
  • semaphore.h
  • signal.h
  • sys/types.h
  • time.h
  • unistd.h
  • utils.h

 

FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX Source Code Organisation

Porting related headers and implementation source code


/lib/FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX
        |-- include
        |   |
        |   +- FreeRTOS_POSIX.h
        |   +- FreeRTOS_POSIX_internal.h
        |   +- FreeRTOS_POSIX_types.h
        |   +- portable
        |        |
        |        +- [target]
        |        |    |
        |        |    +- [development board]
        |        |            |
        |        |            +- FreeRTOS_POSIX_portable.h
        |        |
        |        +- FreeRTOS_POSIX_portable_default.h
        |
        +- source
            +- FreeRTOS_POSIX_clock.c
            +- FreeRTOS_POSIX_mqueue.c
            +- FreeRTOS_POSIX_pthread_barrier.c
            +- FreeRTOS_POSIX_pthread.c
            +- FreeRTOS_POSIX_pthread_cond.c
            +- FreeRTOS_POSIX_pthread_mutex.c
            +- FreeRTOS_POSIX_sched.c
            +- FreeRTOS_POSIX_semaphore.c
            +- FreeRTOS_POSIX_timer.c
            +- FreeRTOS_POSIX_unistd.c
            +- FreeRTOS_POSIX_utils.c

FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX headers


	/lib/include/FreeRTOS_POSIX
                    +- errno.h
                    +- fcntl.h
                    +- mqueue.h
                    +- pthread.h
                    +- sched.h
                    +- semaphore.h
                    +- signal.h
                    +- sys
                    |    |
                    |    +- types.h
                    |
                    +- time.h
                    +- unistd.h
                    +- utils.h

 

Dependencies

Both configUSE_POSIX_ERRNO and configUSE_APPLICATION_TASK_TAG must be set to 1 in FreeRTOSConfig.h.

 

Developer References and API Documents

Please refer to the reference material (links to Doxygen output).

 

Porting

Porting Related Header Files

FreeRTOS platform specific POSIX configuration
High Level Description
/lib/FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX/include/FreeRTOS_POSIX.h This header file brings in dependencies required by FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX. This file must be included before all other FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX includes.
/lib/FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX/include/FreeRTOS_POSIX_internal.h FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX internal structs and initializers. Users are not suggested to touch this file.
/lib/FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX/include/FreeRTOS_POSIX_portable_default.h Defaults for FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX port-specific configuration options.
/lib/FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX/include/portable/[vendor-directory]/FreeRTOS_POSIX_portable.h Port-specific configuration overwrite of FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX. As an example, /lib/FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX/include/portable/pc/windows/FreeRTOS_POSIX_portable.h, Windows simulator uses the defaults, thus does not need to overwrite anything.

 

FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX Include Paths

/lib/FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX/include
/lib/FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX/source
/lib/include/FreeRTOS_POSIX/

Note that a project only needs platform specific header from this path /lib/FreeRTOS-Plus-POSIX/include/portable.

 

Code Size

Code Size (Compiled with ARM Code Generation Tools (CGT), --silicon_version 7M4)
File
Optimisation off, in Byte
Optimisation on, in Byte
(--opt_level 0 --opt_for_speed 0)
FreeRTOS_POSIX_clock.c
412
296
FreeRTOS_POSIX_mqueue.c
2016
1612
FreeRTOS_POSIX_pthread_barrier.c
294
200
FreeRTOS_POSIX_pthread.c
980
660
FreeRTOS_POSIX_pthread_cond.c
696
496
FreeRTOS_POSIX_pthread_mutex.c
848
608
FreeRTOS_POSIX_sched.c
48
32
FreeRTOS_POSIX_semaphore.c
540
380
FreeRTOS_POSIX_timer.c
972
788
FreeRTOS_POSIX_unistd.c
92
68
FreeRTOS_POSIX_utils.c
1152
768
Total
8050
5908
 

 

 

 

 

 

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