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- TEKlib v0.32
- helium release
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- (c) 2001 by TEK neoscientists
- all rights reserved.
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- overview
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- TEKlib is a virtual operating system, middleware, and IPC
- layer. it provides portable services for
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- - memory management
- - timers
- - mutexes
- - events
- - threads
- - message IPC
- - network transparency
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- TEKlib implements an ultra-thin¹ abstraction to a host's
- kernel, with currently two layers entirely differing in
- respect to naming conventions and abstraction levels. an
- implementation of the lower layer ('kernelspace') provides a
- port to another platform. the upper layer ('tekspace') is
- fully portable, and applications written for that API
- compile flawlessly, without modifications, on all supported
- platforms.
-
- currently TEKlib supports an ANSI C conformant API for the
- following platforms:
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- - Linux/32bit²
- - TAO Elate/AmigaSDK 1.01
- - AmigaOS 3.x
- - MorphOS
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- examples in C and documentation in plain text, amigaguide,
- HTML, and PDF are included.
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- ¹ currently less than 30k of binary code
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- ² mostly POSIX compliant, but untested on other operating
- systems and architectures; for porting see kn/linux/exec.c
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- key benefits
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- - well-defined multitasking semantics for atomic, explicit,
- massive parallelity
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- - tasks are autonomous entities supplied with means for
- communication; communicating tasks can be passed around like
- objects
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- - realtime conformant design
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- - fine-grained, recursive memory management, including
- memory pools, optimized reallocation strategies,
- thread-safety, cleanup handling
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- - reliable, unified messaging semantics for synchronous and
- asynchronous IPC in both local address space and via network
-
- - protocol-agnostic messaging layer, currently implemented
- with TCP/IP sockets
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- - small, robust, fault-tolerant, fast, portable, fully
- re-entrant, not limited to a particular compiler
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- - open source, BSD style licensing model.
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- security warning
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- this library is targetted to creating distributed software in
- the long run. at its current development stage, it lacks the
- implementation of a fully-fledged security philosophy. don't let
- networked TEKlib applications listen on privileged port numbers,
- and don't announce messageports outside of trusted environments
- for now.
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- requirements
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- known, tested, recommended configurations
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- Linux - 2.2 and 2.4 kernel series, gcc 2.95.2,
- libpthreads, libX11 (optional)
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- AmigaOS - AmigaOS 3.x, bsdsocket.library v4,
- guigfx.library and render.library (optional),
- SAS/C 6.5x or egcs 2.91.66
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- TAO Elate - AmigaSDK 1.01, vpcc 2.0
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- MorphOS - bsdsocket.library v4, guigfx.library and
- render.library (optional), gcc 2.95.2
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- authors
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- timm s. mueller
- tmueller@neoscientists.org
- bifat at #neoscientists on ircnet
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- daniel adler
- dadler@neoscientists.org
- plex at #neoscientists on ircnet
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