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Category: InformationalOlli Vanhoja
2012

Zeke

Zeke is a tiny Unix-like operating system implementation that has grown up from an even smaller CMSIS-like embedded system.

Key Features

  • Kernel
    • Fully pre-emptible kernel mode
    • Object-oriented thread scheduling system
    • One-to-one kernel threads for user processes
    • freeBSD-like sysctl interface
  • Processes
    • ASLR
    • Copy-On-Write virtual memory
    • Per process capabilities
    • Unix-like fork and exec
    • elf32 support
    • Linux-style elf32 core dumps
  • IPC
    • Signals
    • mmap
    • pipes
    • pty
  • File Systems
    • Complete file system abstraction (VFS)
    • FAT12/16/32 support
    • Fast RAM file system
    • MBR support
    • freeBSD-like device file interface
  • Userland
    • Mostly C99 compliant libc
    • Standard user application separation by using POSIX processes
    • System call based kernel services

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