P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian

P.I.P.S.

Stable release	1.7 / April 10, 2010; 17 months ago (2010-04-10)
Written in	C, C++
Operating system	Symbian OS
Type	Application programming interface
License	?
Website	wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/P.I.P.S.

P.I.P.S. is a term (recursive acronym) for Symbian software libraries that means, P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian OS. It is intended to help C language programmers in migration of desktop and server middleware, applications to Symbian OS based mobile smartphone devices. ^{[1] [2]}

Software libraries

The PIPS software libraries provides C and C++ application programming interfaces in standard C libraries such as

• POSIX
  • libc - The "C Standard Library" with system APIs mapped to Symbian OS APIs for better performance
  • libm - A mathematical library
  • libpthread - Implements POSIX-style threading support in terms of the underlying Symbian OS thread support
  • libdl - Implements POSIX-style dynamic linking which extends the dynamic loading model of Symbian OS
• LIBZ
  • libz
• OpenSSL
  • libcrypt
  • libcrypto
  • libssl
• GNOME
  • libglib

Limitations

The P.I.P.S. environment does not support signals. This lack of support for signals means that IPC with signals is also not supported. Under P.I.P.S., I/O must be carried out in a synchronous manner.

Extensions and successors: Open C and Open C++

Open C and Open C++ are extensions by Nokia of P.I.P.S. In contrast to mere P.I.P.S., they were only for Series 60 phones. ^[3]

See also

• POSIX
• POSIX Threads
• C POSIX library

References

1. ^ Symbian introduces POSIX libraries on Symbian OS
2. ^ Symbian OS to gain POSIX libraries
3. '^ Wilcox, Mark and others, Porting to the Symbian Platform, pages 106-107, 2009, Wiley

External links

• P.I.P.S. - Forum Nokia Wiki
• P.I.P.S. - Symbian Developer Network Public Wiki