Fwd: [GSOC]Pork error: Function not implemented[deb]

[Joel Sherrill]

Rtems is single process and does not support fork(), exec(), shm*() or mmap() methods. You will have to find a way around this or the package is not meant for environments which follow POSIX profiles 51 or 52. 53 and 54 include processes

--joel

Xiaochen Pan <panx at seas.upenn.edu> wrote:

>So, is it because I disabled posix when building rtems? I will try.
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>From: panx at seas.upenn.edu<mailto:panx at seas.upenn.edu>
>Subject: [GSOC]Pork error: Function not implemented[deb]
>Date: June 23, 2012 6:28:18 PM EDT
>To: rtems-devel at rtems.org<mailto:rtems-devel at rtems.org>
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>Hi,
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>When I use sparc-rtems4.11-run command to run the executable file for certain tests application, it first print something in the program:
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>->T1 [IN PROGRESS]
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>which should be printed out as normal.
>Then it comes out this error message:
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>Fork error: Function not implemented.
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>This testing framework probably depends on forking the process to do the tests stuff in order to avoid interferering with running application. Forking a process shouldn't be in the way. But I am not that familiar with RTEMS. So, I wonder are there anything special with the RTEMS in process management?
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>regards,
>xiaochen
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