Since core ABI 21, users can decide whether a new element should be
made public or private depending on the value of clone flags added to
the new long form of all element creation calls, i.e. evl_create_*().
All evl_new_*() calls become a shorthand for their respective long
form with reasonable default arguments, including private visibility.
As a shorthand, libevl also interprets a slash character leading the
name argument passed to these services as an implicit request for
creating a public element. In other words, this is the same as passing
EVL_CLONE_PUBLIC in the clone flags.
A public element appears as a cdev in the /dev/evl hierarchy, which
means that it is visible to other processes, which may share it. On
the contrary, a private element is only known from the process
creating it, although it does appear in the /sysfs hierarchy
regardless.
e.g.:
efd = evl_attach_self("/visible-thread");
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 248, 1 Apr 17 11:59 clone
crw-rw---- 1 root root 246, 0 Apr 17 11:59 visible-thread
or,
efd = evl_attach_self("private-thread");
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 248, 1 Apr 17 11:59 clone
Signed-off-by: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
Philippe Gerum