Header Files

The ChorusOS operating system header files are packaged in five different directories:

• kernel/include/chorus. Header files in this directory export the following APIs:

  • The Microkernel API

  • The Private Data API

  • The Actor Management API

• kernel/include/stdc. Header files in this directory export the following APIs:

  • The Standard-C API

  • The Mathematical API

  • The Console Input/Output API

  • Some BSD specific APIs

• include/posix. Header files in this directory export the following APIs:

  • The Standard-C API

  • The Mathematical API

  • The POSIX Input/Output API

  • The POSIX MRTP API

  • The POSIX Network API

  • The Sun RPC API

  • Some BSD specific APIs

• include/CC. Header files in this directory export the GNU 2.7.1 C++ API.

• include/X11. Header files in this directory export the following libraries: libX11.a, libXaw.a, libXext.a, libXmu.a, libXt.a.

Typical ChorusOS operating system applications use header files of the include/chorus and include/posix directories (and also include/CC for applications using the GNU 2.7.1 C++ API).

Developing personality servers (such as servers implementing a UNIX personality) on a ChorusOS operating system needs extra care in order to avoid conflicts between data types declared by ChorusOS operating system header files, and data types declared by the server's header files. These servers should be restricted to header files of the include/chorus and include/stdc directories and use the _CHO_POSIX_TYPES_NOTDEF compile option.