I am new to VxWorks and I am developing a software using C++ in VxWorks platform. I want to know whether VxWorks compiler supports C++ 11 standard. The reason I am asking this question is because t...

Is it possible to debug a VxWorks task without the Workbench with GDB or another free debugger? Looking online it is only reported an old command for gdb (target vxworks ID) that does not work anym...

While understanding each by itself (or maybe not), it looks like I'm far from understanding the practical differences between the two. Per my understanding, a BSP is a package of drivers and config...

3 different messages are being sent to the same port at different rates: Message  size (bytes)  Sent everytransmit speed High        &n...

How do I receive layer 2 packets in POSIXy C++? The packets only have src and dst MAC address, type/length, and custom formatted data. They're not TCP or UDP or IP or IGMP or ARP or whatever - they...

When we doing taskSpawn a task is creating in vxworks. What is actually a task. Is there any relation with thread. In my understanding vxworks is thread based Operating system. Can some one pleas...

What are all the differences between pipes and message queues? Please explain both from vxworks & unix perspectives. I think pipes are unidirectional but message queues aren't. But don't pip...

VxWorks provides a version of strerror_r that only takes two parameters. STATUS strerror_r ( int errcode, /* error number */ char *buffer /* string buffer */ ) cURL mentions MAXERRSTR_SIZE. ...

So I decided to grab my tools and analyze a router firmware. It went pretty okay up to the point where I had to find segments manually. I wouldn't bother you with it and i really don't want to ask ...

We're programming on a proprietary embedded platform sitting atop of VxWorks 5.5. In our toolbox, we have a condition variable, that is implemented using a VxWorks binary semaphore. Now, POSIX pr...

Difference between flat memory model and protected memory model? VxWorks supports flat memory model, Does Linux also supports flat memory model?

I'm doing a project in C language that runs on a target with vxWorks operating system. I would like to run my code on PC also for two reasons: The HW of the target is not available yet, and i wan...

Not sure it is related to VxWorks or to rlogin, but anyway. I read one should never use the exit command to quit a VxWorks rsh shell, but only the logout command. However I can't seem to find an e...

In vxworks, should every task be spawned with VX_FP_TASK option? The VX_FP_TASK option is required if your task uses any floating point operations. But how does one predict the future - i mean, ho...

I worked on VxWorks 5.5 long time back and it was the best experience working on world's best real time OS. Since then I never got a chance to work on it again. But, a question keeps popping to me,...

Would like to know how the scheduler gets called so that it can switch tasks. As in even if its preemptive scheduling or round robin scheduling - the scheduler should come in to picture to do any k...

I am running into a strange issue I've been able to track down somewhat but I still can't see the cause. Maybe someone here can shed some light? I'm running on a PowerPC processor on top of VxWork...

Can I use a desktop PC to run VxWorks as the operating system? In other words, can a standard PC be used as a target processor? I'm not talking about hosting Workbench and a VxSim on the same machi...

In the vxWorks RTOS, there is a shell that allows you to issue command to your embedded system. The documentation refers to kernel shell, host shell and target shell. What is the difference between...

When using vxWorks as a development platform, we can't write our application with the standard main() function. Why can't we have a main function?