Single-address space, no processes?

Ed Sutter ed.sutter at alcatel-lucent.com
Mon Jan 4 21:07:23 AWST 2016


Sebastian,
(sorry for the late reply)
I ported dropbear SSH to uC/OS-I that used a sockets-api TCP/IP stack.
Point being: it is certainly doable.
Unfortunately, I can't release it, and I can tell you that it wasn't
trivial; however, it is certainly doable.
Ed
> Hello,
>
> I would like to use SSH to do some remote administration for an 
> application running with the RTEMS real-time operating system. In this 
> environment we have no virtual memory and user and kernel space 
> separation. So this is like an application running in kernel mode 
> only. Is it in possible to use the dropbear SSH server in such an 
> environment? A quick grep showed that fork() is used for example to 
> spawn new processes. Would it be possible to spawn a new thread 
> instead (e.g. via pthread_create())?
>



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