ChorusOS Microkernel APIs

The programming environment of ChorusOS actors consists of the following interfaces:

• Microkernel API

• Private Data API

• Standard-C API

• Console I/O API

The ChorusOS actor APIs enable you to build two kinds of applications:

• Embedded actors

• Standard actors

Embedded actors:

• Embedded user actors use the embedded library:

  kernel/lib/embedded/libebd.u.a

• Embedded supervisor actors use the embedded library:

  kernel/lib/embedded/libebd.s.a

Standard actors:

• Standard actors not linked to the embedded library use the library:

  os/lib/libc.a

  Note that this is the same library used by POSIX processes.