P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian

P.I.P.S.
Stable release 1.7 / April 10, 2010; 21 months ago (2010-04-10)
Written in C, C++
Operating system Symbian OS
Type Application programming interface
License ?
Website wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/P.I.P.S.

P.I.P.S. is a term (recursive acronym) for Symbian software libraries that means, P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian OS. It is intended to help C language programmers in migration of desktop and server middleware, applications to Symbian OS based mobile smartphone devices. [1] [2]

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Software libraries

The PIPS software libraries provides C and C++ application programming interfaces in standard C libraries such as

Limitations

The P.I.P.S. environment does not support signals. This lack of support for signals means that IPC with signals is also not supported. Under P.I.P.S., I/O must be carried out in a synchronous manner.

Extensions and successors: Open C and Open C++

Open C and Open C++ are extensions by Nokia of P.I.P.S. In contrast to mere P.I.P.S., they were only for Series 60 phones. [3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Symbian introduces POSIX libraries on Symbian OS
  2. ^ Symbian OS to gain POSIX libraries
  3. '^ Wilcox, Mark and others, Porting to the Symbian Platform, pages 106-107, 2009, Wiley

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