Programming Conventions

Services provided by the ChorusOS operating system are accessed as C routines. C header files provide the required constants, types and prototypes definitions. As the ChorusOS operating system is highly modular, header files reflect this modularity. However, in the following examples a global header file, named chorus.h, which collects most of the required header files, has been used for simplicity. Please refer to the man pages to get the actual minimum header file required for each service.

Most ChorusOS operating system constants start with K_. ChorusOS operating system error codes start with K_E. Constants and error codes are all written in uppercase.

Most specific data types are prefixed by Kn. When type names are composed of several lexems, the first letter of each lexem is written in uppercase while other letters are in lowercase, as in KnRgnDesc (region descriptor).