New POSIX APIs

[Joel Sherrill]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 3:07 PM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 1:51 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Looks like a set of new APIs are coming to POSIX. See
> >
> > https://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_1110.pdf
> >
> > and search for "+" for added lines. Some are text changes and others
> > are API additions. Some like strlcat() have been around for ages. Others
> > are new.
> >
> > I have not and likely will not soon make it through this document to
> > make a list of the new APIs. This list would then need to be checked
> > against RTEMS and newlib. It is clear we are missing an entire class
> > of new concurrency methods. There are ones like pthread_cond_clockwait()
> > for many (all?) concurrency primitives.
> >
> > Should I file a ticket for someone to do the assessment of what was
> added?
> >
> gsoc?
>

Certainly someone could make the master list as part of their proposal,
see which ones already are supported, and file one or more tickets about
missing. It would be more than one GSoC project to complete the list I
think but the analysis would be reasonable for GSoC proposal effort.

--joel


>
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