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QNX SDP is a cross-compiling and debugging environment, including an IDE and command-line tools, for building binary images and programs for target boards running QNX Neutrino 7.1.
Programming
Writing a Resource Manager
Fleshing Out the Skeleton
Message types

QNX Momentics IDE User's Guide
This User's Guide describes version 7.1 of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that's part of the QNX Momentics tool suite.
QNX Software Development Platform
QNX SDP is a cross-compiling and debugging environment, including an IDE and command-line tools, for building binary images and programs for target boards running QNX Neutrino 7.1.
- Quickstart Guide
- OS Components & Operations
- Audio & Graphics API
- Multimedia
- Networking Middleware
- Programming
  - Getting Started with QNX Neutrino
    Getting Started with QNX Neutrino: A Guide for Realtime Programmers is intended to introduce you to the QNX Neutrino RTOS and help you develop applications and resource managers for it.
  - Programmer's Guide
    The QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide covers a variety of topics that might interest developers who are building applications that will run under the QNX Neutrino RTOS.
  - The QNX Neutrino Cookbook: Recipes for Programmers
  - Writing a Resource Manager
    - What Is a Resource Manager?
      In general terms, a resource manager is a process that registers a name in the filesystem name space. Other processes use that path to communicate with the resource manager.
    - The Bones of a Resource Manager
    - Fleshing Out the Skeleton
      - Message types
        Connect messages
        I/O messages
        Default message handling
        open(), dup(), and close()
      - Setting resource manager attributes
      - Ways of adding functionality to the resource manager
      - Security
        A resource manager is usually a privileged process, so you should be careful not to let a client coerce it into exhausting resources or compromising the system.
    - POSIX-Layer Data Structures
    - Handling Read and Write Messages
    - Resource Managers that Handle Multiple Devices
    - Combine Messages
    - Using the Receive Buffer as a Reply Buffer
    - Handling Other Messages
    - Unblocking Clients and Handling Interrupts
    - Multithreaded Resource Managers
    - Filesystem Resource Managers
    - Glossary
- Sensor Framework
- System Security Guide
  The QNX System Security Guide is intended for both system integrators who are responsible for the security of a QNX Neutrino RTOS system and developers who want to create a QNX Neutrino resource manager free from vulnerabilities.
- Utilities & Libraries
QNX Hypervisor
The QNX Hypervisor allows you to run multiple OSs on a target system so you can separate critical and non-critical functions, support a wide variety of applications, and reduce hardware costs.
QNX Software in the Cloud
QNX Software in the Cloud enables developers to use the QNX software in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure (Azure).
QNX Advanced Virtualization Frameworks User's Guide
This User's Guide is aimed at all systems integrators and developers who want to design and build embedded systems using the QNX Advanced Virtualization Frameworks.
Typographical Conventions, Support, and Licensing
This section describes the typographical conventions used throughout the documentation and explains how to obtain technical support.

Message types

As we saw in the Bones of a Resource Manager chapter, your resource manager may need to handle these types of messages:

connect messages
I/O messages

We'll examine them in the sections and chapters that follow.

Note:

The Getting Started with QNX Neutrino guide includes a summary of the handlers for these messages; see Alphabetical listing of connect and I/O functions in its Resource Managers chapter.

Page updated: March 12, 2026