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Originally Posted by dcbrown
After reading a lot of the stuff available from FIRST, WPI, NI, and Wind River... and doing some integration/interpretation... and guessing, the following are some random opinions- . VxWorks is essentially (very!) unix-like operating system.
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you need to be careful. While VxWorks has a posix interface, but it is not Unix or Linux. You can go along way treating it as if it was a unix system and then you get bit by something that does not work as you expect.
You can do things with the vxWorks shell that are just not unix like at all. For example, you can call routines from the shell much like you can call programs from a linux command prompt.
I hope that Wind River will give us access to some of the extra tools that can come with Workbench. For example, Wind River has tools which can monitor memory use as the your program is running, so you can detect memroy leaks. There are also tools for profiling so you can know how much time is spent in various routiens and how often those routines are called.
Hopefully we can get Wind River to spring for some training assistance to allow us to make the best use of their tools.