The System Architecture guide accompanies the QNX Neutrino realtime OS and is intended for both application developers and end-users.
This guide describes the philosophy of QNX Neutrino and the architecture used to robustly implement the OS. It covers message-passing services, followed by the details of the microkernel, the process manager, resource managers, and other aspects of QNX Neutrino.
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The following table may help you find information quickly:
| To find out about: | Go to: |
|---|---|
| OS design goals; message-passing IPC | The Philosophy of QNX Neutrino |
| System services | The QNX Neutrino Microkernel |
| Sharing information between processes | Interprocess Communication (IPC) |
| System event monitoring | The Instrumented Microkernel |
| Working on a system with more than one processor | Multicore Processing |
| Memory management, pathname management, etc. | Process Manager |
| Shared objects | Dynamic Linking |
| Device drivers | Resource Managers |
| Image, RAM, Power-Safe, QNX 4, DOS, CD-ROM, Flash, NFS, CIFS, Ext2, and other filesystems | Filesystems |
| Persistent Publish/Subscribe (PPS) | PPS |
| Serial and parallel devices | Character I/O |
| Network subsystem | Networking Architecture |
| Native QNX Neutrino networking | Native Networking (Qnet) |
| TCP/IP implementation | TCP/IP Networking |
| Fault recovery | High Availability |
| Sharing resources among competing processes | Adaptive Partitioning |
| Terms used in QNX documentation | Glossary |
For information about programming in Neutrino, see Getting Started with QNX Neutrino: A Guide for Realtime Programmers and the QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide.