Open System Services Porting Guide (G06.24+, H06.03+)
Table Of Contents
- What’s New in This Manual
- About This Manual
- 1 Introduction to Porting
- 2 The Development Environment
- 3 Useful Porting Tools
- 4 Interoperating Between User Environments
- Purpose of Interoperability
- The OSS User Environment
- OSS Commands for the Guardian User
- Guardian Commands for the UNIX User
- OSS Pathname and Guardian Filename Conversions
- Running the OSS Shell and Commands From TACL
- Running Guardian Commands From the OSS Shell
- Running OSS Processes With Guardian Attributes
- Using OSS Commands to Manage Guardian Objects
- 5 Interoperating Between Programming Environments
- 6 OSS Porting Considerations
- 7 Porting UNIX Applications to the OSS Environment
- 8 Migrating Guardian Applications to the OSS Environment
- General Migration Guidelines
- C Compiler Issues for Guardian Programs
- Using New and Extended Guardian Procedures
- Using OSS Functions in a Guardian Program
- Interoperating With OSS Programs
- Starting an OSS Program From the Guardian Environment
- C Compiler Considerations for OSS Programs
- Porting a Guardian Program to the OSS Environment
- How Arguments Are Passed to the C or C++ Program
- Differences in the Two Run-Time Environments
- Which Run-Time Routines Are Available
- Use of Common Run-Time Environment (CRE) Functions
- Replacing Guardian Procedure Calls With Equivalent OSS Functions
- Which IPC Mechanisms Can Be Used
- Interactions Between Guardian and OSS Functions
- 9 Porting From Specific UNIX Systems
- 10 Native Migration Overview
- 11 Porting or Migrating Sockets Applications
- 12 Porting Threaded Applications
- A Equivalent OSS and UNIX Commands for Guardian Users
- B Equivalent Guardian Commands for OSS and UNIX Users
- C Equivalent Inspect Debugging Commands for dbx Commands
- D Equivalent Native Inspect Debugging Commands for dbx Commands
- E Standard POSIX Threads Functions: Differences Between the Previous and Current Standards
- Glossary
- Index
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Related Reading
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pTAL Guidelines for TAL Programmers. This manual gives guidelines for writing
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Software Internationalization Guide. This guide describes use of the OSS
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H-Series Application Migration Guide. This guide introduces the H-series TNS/E
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Guardian Native C Library Calls Reference Manual. This manual describes syntax
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Guardian Procedure Calls Reference Manual. This manual describes the syntax
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Open System Services Library Calls Reference Manual. This manual describes all
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Open System Services Shell and Utilities Reference Manual. This manual presents
rules and syntax for each command the user enters interactively to access the
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written for all audiences: system administrators, managers, and operators; end
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Open System Services System Calls Reference Manual. This manual describes all
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header file locations for literals and symbolic definitions. This manual is intended
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pTAL Reference Manual. This manual provides syntax descriptions and error
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