diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d01fca3..be6b57b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,10 +1,7 @@ ## FreeRTOS+POSIX: Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX threading wrapper) for FreeRTOS -The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems. FreeRTOS+POSIX implements a subset of the [POSIX threading](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/threads.html) API. +The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems. FreeRTOS+POSIX implements *a small subset* of the [POSIX threading](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/threads.html) API. This subset allows application developers familiar with POSIX API to develop a FreeRTOS application using POSIX like threading primitives. FreeRTOS+POSIX does not implement more than 80% of the POSIX API. Therefore, an existing POSIX compliant application or a POSIX compliant library cannot be ported to run on FreeRTOS Kernel using only this wrapper. -With FreeRTOS+POSIX, an existing POSIX threading compliant application can be ported to run on the FreeRTOS kernel, and therefor leverage all the [Amazon FreeRTOS](https://www.freertos.org/FAQ_Amazon.html) functionality. Additionally, a library designed for use with POSIX threading compatible operating systems can be ported to FreeRTOS kernel based applications. - -For more on FreeRTOS+POSIX, please visit [freertos.org](https://www.freertos.org/FreeRTOS-Plus/FreeRTOS_Plus_POSIX/index.html) This repository only contains source code. For demo applications, please visit https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Labs.