In the embedded/real-time arena, where operating system licensing costs are high and so are the stakes, the usage of an open-source operating system such as Linux has many advantages. Apart from the ...

Debugging embedded software can be a challenging, time-consuming and unpredictable factor in the development of embedded systems. Detecting errant program execution begs the question “How did the ...

In a previous article [“An Event Mechanism for Linux”, LJ, July 2003], we introduced the necessity for Linux to adopt a native and generic event mechanism in the context of telecom. Many existing ...

Many userspace developers want a “flight recorder” for applications on Linux. While Solaris offers a comprehensive tracing tool, dtrace, Linux is now growing pieces of tracing functionality. Dynamic ...