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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] Porting POSIX - wiki clarification
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To: Steve <sbxenomai@domain.hid>
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Steve wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This may be a stupid question, but on the 'Porting POSIX applications to
> Xenomai' page of the wiki, discussing 'Access to drivers' in the
> Remedies section of Mode Switches, it says:
> 
> "From an application point of view, using the Xenomai POSIX skin wrapped
> services allow to manipulate file descriptors provided by the RTDM skin
> as ordinary file descriptors."
> 
> I just wanted to check, does this mean that from an application point of
> view, using the Xenomai POSIX skin wraped services allows for
> manipulation of file descriptors provided by the RTDM skin *as if they
> were* ordinary file descriptors.
> 
> Or am I misunderstanding?

No, you are not misunderstanding. If you feel brave enough, we can give
you write access to the wiki so that you can correct my english mistakes.

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                                          Gilles