One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...

PX5 FILE is the first deeply embedded file presenting a native Linux file system API to be certified by SGS-TÜV Saar to the highest levels of the IEC 61508, IEC 62304, ISO 26262, and EN 50128 ...

JPEG images are one of the more common image formats and are supported natively by Web browsers, image viewers and cameras. It is possible to use the JPEG file format for more than just displaying ...

You need to package up a bunch of files, send them somewhere, and do something with them at the destination. It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition, is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. Offering detailed ...

XML, or the Extensible Markup Language, is a standard managed by the World Wide Web Consortium. The flexible text format was initially designed for data exchange on the Internet. Yet it's become much ...

Yesterday we mentioned Google Video Downloader, a web app dedicated to extracting the URL of the embedded video in Google Video. While it's certainly nice to have an entire website dedicated to ...