Ville Juven
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Like the name implies, it is supposed to set the spawn attributes for the NuttX specific "spawn proxy task" which was historically used as a proxy to spawn new tasks. The proxy handled file actions and the signal mask which are inherited from the parent. The proxy task does not exist anymore, thus the proxy task attributes do not need to be set anymore either. Also, the function is currently still used, but the signal mask is set for the spawning process, not the proxy process, and this is most DEFINITELY an error (as the spawning process's signal mask changes unexpectedly). Setting the signal mask for the newly spawned process is simple, just set it directly, if instructed to do so. This will be done in a later patch!
Apache NuttX is a real-time operating system (RTOS) with an emphasis on standards compliance and small footprint. Scalable from 8-bit to 64-bit microcontroller environments, the primary governing standards in NuttX are POSIX and ANSI standards. Additional standard APIs from Unix and other common RTOSs (such as VxWorks) are adopted for functionality not available under these standards, or for functionality that is not appropriate for deeply-embedded environments (such as fork()).
For brevity, many parts of the documentation will refer to Apache NuttX as simply NuttX.
Getting Started
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