Appendix: What's New in this Reference?

This appendix includes:

• What's new in the QNX Software Development Platform 6.4.1?
• What's new in the QNX Software Development Platform 6.4.0?
• What's new in QNX Momentics 6.3.2?
• What's new in QNX Neutrino Core OS 6.3.2?
• What's new in 6.3.0 Service Pack 2?
• What's new in 6.3.0 Service Pack 1?
• What's new in 6.3.0?
• What's new in 6.2.1?

What's new in the QNX Software Development Platform 6.4.1?

• New entries
• Deprecated content
• Changed content
• Errata

New entries

applypatch

Install or uninstall a patch (QNX Neutrino)

devb-ahci

Driver for AHCI SATA interfaces (QNX Neutrino)

devg-poulsbo.so

Graphics driver for the Poulsbo chipset

devnp-e1000.so

Driver for Intel Gigabit Ethernet controllers

devnp-rtl8169.so

Driver for Realtek 8169 Gigabit Ethernet controllers

dig

DNS domain information groper lookup utility

dnssec-keygen

DNSSEC key-generation tool

dnssec-signzone

DNSSEC zone-signing tool

ed

Text editor

finstall

Install a self-hosted QNX Neutrino system (QNX Neutrino)

---

Running this utility will destroy your current installation of QNX Neutrino. The only reason we ship finstall is to allow customers to create a custom installer boot image. This will likely happen only under the direction of our support staff.

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fs-mac.so

Shared object that supports Apple Macintosh HFS (Hierarchical File System) and HFS Plus (QNX Neutrino)

fs-nt.so

Shared object that supports the Windows NT filesystem (QNX Neutrino)

getty

Set terminal modes for system access (NetBSD)

host

DNS lookup utility

indent

Format C source

ldd

List the shared libraries that a program requires (Unix)

ln-w

Create a “link” on Windows

lwresd

Lightweight resolver daemon

mcs

Manipulate the comment section of an object file

named-checkconf

Tool for checking the syntax of a named configuration file

named-checkzone

Tool for checking a zone file

named-compilezone

Tool for converting a zone file

nsupdate

Dynamic DNS update utility

op

Run a command as someone else

patch

Use the output from diff et al. to update a file (GNU)

qbinaudit

Compare binaries to the officially distributed versions (QNX Neutrino)

rndc

Name server control utility

rndc-confgen

Key-generation tool for rndc

rndc.conf

Configuration file for rndc

showlicense

Display the type of QNX license that's currently active (QNX Neutrino)

top

Display system usage (Unix)

unifdef

Remove ifdef'ed C/C++ lines

Deprecated content

devn-rtl8169.so

Replaced by devnp-rtl8169.so.

fs-cd.so

The fs-udf.so shared object now supports ISO-9660 filesystems in addition to UDF filesystems. You should use it instead of fs-cd.so.

procnto-900

Microkernel for PowerPC 900 series processors.

procnto-900-smp

Microkernel for PowerPC 900 series SMP processors.

psin

Use pidin instead.

named-xfer

Ancillary agent for inbound zone transfers

Changed content

cam-disk.so

It's possible to specify a starting device number in the name= option.

---

Specify device numbers only on a closed system where you know all the devices and indexes.

---

cam-optical.so

The arguments of the timeout and verbose options have changed, and there's a new rmb option.

chkfsys

There's a new -x option that makes chkfsys exit with detailed error codes. Without this option, an exit status of 0 doesn't indicate that no problems were found with the filesystem(s).

cron

There's a new -s option that makes cron poll for jobs every minute (to compensate for clock skew).

devb-ram

The default amount of cache for a block I/O driver (15% of system RAM) is too high for devb-ram; you should use the blk cache=... option to reduce it.

devc-con, devc-con-hid

These managers support international keyboard layouts. You can use the supplied US-101 or DE-102 (German) layout, or you can define your own layout.

devf-generic

New options:

-d log_method

Control the logging from the flash driver.

-e auto

Only enumerate the flash partitions, instead of doing a full scan and mount.

devg-vmware.so

VirtualPC and VMWare require a Windows session that's operating with 32-bit graphics.

df

There's a new -h option that makes df display the sizes in a “human-readable” form, using bytes, KB, MB, or GB as the units.

diskboot

There's a new -u option that you can use to override the options passed to io-usb.

fdisk

• The fdisk info command displays a warning if the number of sectors reported by the device doesn't match the product of the number of cylinders, the sectors per track, and the number of heads. This is expected for hard drives that use zoned bit recording.
• We've added more information about partition types, the corresponding filesystems, and the commands you use to initialize the filesystems.

fs-cd.so, fs-dos.so, fs-ext2.so, fs-qnx6.so, fs-udf.so

All our disk filesystems except fs-qnx4.so use UTF-8 encoding for presentation of their filenames; attempts to specify a filename not using UTF-8 encoding will fail (with an error of EILSEQ) on these filesystems.

fs-qnx6.so

The Power-Safe filesystem was designed for and is intended for traditional rotating hard disk drive media. It can't guarantee power-safe robustness if the drive can't ensure that data is flushed to the storage medium. For more information, see “Required properties of the device” in the entry for fs-qnx6.so.

fs-udf.so

In addition to supporting UDF (OSTA-UDF/ECMA-167) filesystems, fs-udf.so now supports ISO-9660 (base 1998 spec, 1999 spec, Joliet extensions, Rock Ridge extensions). As a result, it has the following new options:

case=asis|lower|upper

Control the case used to display ISO-9660 filenames.

format=list

Set both the list of disk formats to support, as well as the order in which they should be probed.

info=path

The first character of the path can be + or -, and this controls whether empty entries (metadata descriptors not given a value) are shown in the directory or not, respectively.

perms=[file_permissions][:directory_permissions]

The permissions to use for ISO9660 files, directories, or both.

This filesystem also has a new vcd=num option that you can use to set the number of raw VCD 2352-byte deblocking buffers.

fsysinfo

The output now includes statistics about the number of pages mapped in and released by the heap-allocation subsystem.

ftp

We're using a newer version of ftp, so we've updated the link to the NetBSD documentation.

ftpd

We've restored the “Setting up a restricted ftp subtree” section that was removed from the documentation for QNX SDP 6.4.0.

gcc

• The -mno-fp-moves option (a QNX Neutrino extension) prevents the code generator from using floating point registers to move integers. Using floating point registers for this is very slow on systems that use floating point emulation.
• Even with exceptions disabled, the new() operator throws a std::out_of_memory exception if there isn't enough memory. If you want new() to return NULL instead of throwing an exception, overload the new() operator with your own.

inetd

Use the -D option to force inetd to daemonize by calling procmgr_daemon() instead of calling daemon(). You need to specify the -D option to inetd if you're running it under the control of the High Availability Manager.

io-blk.so

• We now explain how you can use the naming= option to specify the naming scheme for devices and partitions.

  ---

  Use something other than the default (0#) scheme only on closed systems, and at your own risk.

  ---

• We've updated the options:
  • delwri — now specifies the delay time for delayed writes on fixed and removable media.
  • enumpart — set the order for enumerating disk partitions.
  • hash — removed.
  • nora — replaced by ra.
  • priority — set the priority of periodic filesystem callouts.
  • ra — set the minimum and maximum size of the read-ahead buffers.
  • [no]rmv — don't/do allow invalid mounts on removable media (re-insert).

io-pkt-v4, io-pkt-v4-hc, io-pkt-v6-hc

• The stack processes a generic name= option that lets you override the default interface prefix used for network drivers.
• The stack processes the following driver options for all USB drivers using the NetBSD-to-QNX conversion library to let you identify a particular USB device using information obtained from running usb -v:
  • did=ID — device product ID
  • vid=ID — device vendor ID
  • devno=addr — device address, as reported by the usb utility
  • busno=num — host controller, as reported by the usb utility

io-usb

You can use the -P option to specify the priority of the server.

ls

If you're using Qnet, doing something like ls -R /net can take a very long time because it recursively lists all the directories on all the machines on your network.

mkefs

• You can specify a value of none for the filter attribute.
• You can use the -c option to specify a directory in which to cache compressed files.

mketfs

You can specify a value of none for the filter attribute.

mkifs

• You can specify a value of none for the filter attribute.
• If you turn compression on with the +compress attribute, you can optionally specify the algorithm by number.

mkqnx6fs

New options:

• -O options — specify boot options.
• -o options — specify filesystem options.

The -T option is intended to replace explicit -b, -g, -i, and -r values.

mksbp

This entry now describes how to build a System Builder project that's inside a workspace or just logically linked to one.

mount

By default, filesystems are mounted as read-write (if the physical media permit it), but you can use the -r option to mount them as read-only.

named

Updated to reflect BIND9.

/etc/named.conf

Updated to reflect BIND9.

nfsd

If you change the exports file, you can make nfsd aware of the changes by either restarting it, or by sending it a SIGHUP signal.

ntpd, ntpdate

For information about the associated configuration files, see ntp.conf and ntp.keys in the FreeBSD documentation.

on

We've documented the -P option, which spawns the process, setting the SPAWN_PADDR64_SAFE flag to indicate that the process is known to operate safely with 64-bit addressing or doesn't care about the physical memory location.

pci-bios

All PCI servers have an -x option that prevents the server from removing devices from the PCI bus while enumerating them.

phlocale

This utility creates or updates /etc/country to indicate the country you're in, based on your selection of the time zone.

phs-to-bjc, phs-to-bmp, phs-to-escp2, phs-to-ijs, phs-to-pcl, phs-to-ps

The -L option was removed from these utilities.

pidin

• This utility now supports the following shorthand names:
  • backtrace — display a backtrace of the calling routines for each thread in the displayed processes.
  • channels — display the lengths of the send, receive, reply and pulse queues.
  • mapinfo — show information about memory mappings.
• We've added more details about the output of the memory argument.
• The pidin syspage command now displays the CPU-dependent, mdriver, and pminfo sections of the system page.

pppd

The ccp option is no longer supported because CCP (Compression Control Protocol) negotiation is enabled by default. The vj option (for enabling Van jacobson style TCP/IP header compression) is also no longer supported. QNX Neutrino supports multilink PPP.

procnto*

• The Process Manager component of procnto implements a /proc filesystem that lets you access and control every process and thread running within the system. For more information, see “Controlling processes via the /proc filesystem” in the Processes chapter of the QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide.
• New options controlling the defragmentation of physical memory:

  -ma

  Automatically mark memory pages that have a mem_offset() performed on it as unmovable when defragmenting physical memory.

  -m~a

  Disable the automatic marking of memory pages as unmovable (the default).

  -md

  Enable the defragmenting of physical memory (the default).

  -m~d

  Disable the defragmenting of physical memory.

  For more information, see “Defragmenting physical memory” in the Process Manager chapter of the System Architecture guide.

QCC

Even with exceptions disabled, the new() operator throws a std::out_of_memory exception if there isn't enough memory. If you want new() to return NULL instead of throwing an exception, overload the new() operator with your own.

qconfig

We've explained why you should use QWinCfg instead of qconfig on Windows.

QWinCfg

Click the Show Packages.. button to display a list of the QNX packages that you've installed on your system.

setkey

We've updated the list of supported algorithms. This utility now supports the 3des-deriv encryption algorithm.

tail

The options for this utility now conform to POSIX; to copy a given number of bytes, use the -c number option.

tftp

There's a new -e option and port argument, and several new commands:

• blksize blk-size
• tout
• tsize

tr

You can specify ranges of characters with or without square brackets.

traceroute

The documentation now includes these options:

• -d — turn on socket-level debugging.
• -P — set the “don't fragment” bit and use the next hop MTU each time a “need fragmentation” error is received, thus probing the path MTU.

wpa_supplicant

We've updated the documentation to reflect the NetBSD version 5.0 of this daemon.

GNU binutils ( addr2line, ar, c++filt, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, strings, strip)

For detailed documentation about these utilities, see the GNU website at http://www.gnu.org/.

We once again support MIPSBE and MIPSLE targets.

Errata

arp

We've updated the documentation to reflect the currant usage message.

cam-optical.so

We've corrected the syntax of the retries and translation options.

devc-con, devc-con-hid, devc-par, devc-serpci

These drivers are for x86 targets only.

devc-serzscc

This driver is for PPCBE and x86 targets only.

devn-*

Legacy io-net drivers create entries under /dev/io-net, not under /dev/io-pkt.

devn-el509.so, devn-sis9.so

You can use these drivers with any variant of io-pkt, not just io-pkt-v4.

devnp-i82544.so

• The default for the irq_thresh option is 9000.
• The default for the transmit option is 4096.
• This driver doesn't support the promiscuous option; the only way to enable promiscuous mode is by issuing an ioctl() command.

devnp-mpc85xx.so, devnp-mpcsec.so

These drivers are shipped only with the BSPs that need them.

dhcp.client

We've updated the documentation to reflect the currant usage message.

dloader

We've updated the description of QNX_TARGET.

enum-devices

When specifying a device, vend should actually be ven.

fs-qnx6.so

We've corrected the description of the sync option.

/etc/inetd.conf

A server doesn't need to explicitly leave the master socket open when it exits.

ld

We've corrected the description of the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.

ldrel

The -S option adds a note that specifies the maximum (not minimum) stack size. If you don't specify -L, the stack is specified as non-lazy.

mkifs

We've removed a reference to vmware.boot, which we no longer ship.

ntomulti-* variants

We've removed references to the ntomulti-* variants (which we no longer ship) of addr2line, ar, gprof, nm, objcopy, objdump, size, strings, and strip.

pf

Although the NetBSD documenation talks about ioctl(), you should use ioctl_socket() instead in your packet-filtering code. With the microkernel message-passing architecture, ioctl() calls that have pointers embedded in them need to be handled specially. The ioctl_socket() function will default to ioctl() for functionality that doesn't require special handling.

pppd

Some of the options aren't specific to QNX Neutrino, but aren't described in the NetBSD documentation.

uesh

Starting in QNX SDP 6.4.0, uesh can accept a script file as an argument. The micro-embedded shelll doesn't support filename expansion, so * and ? aren't special characters.

What's new in the QNX Software Development Platform 6.4.0?

• New entries
• Deprecated content
• Changed content
• Errata

New entries

ap

Create, modify, and query adaptive partitions for the thread scheduler and memory allocator.

brconfig

Configure network bridge parameters

chattr

Manipulate the attributes of a file (QNX Neutrino)

chkqnx6fs

Check an entire Power-Safe filesystem for consistency (QNX Neutrino)

deva-ctrl-intel_hda.so

Sound driver for the Intel High Definition Audio controllers

deva-mixer-hda.so

Mixer DLL for High Definition Audio codecs

devc-serpci

Driver for serial PCIs

devc-serusb

Driver for USB-to-serial adaptors

devg-gma9xx.so

Graphics driver for Intel 945GX and 945GMx chipsets

devg-soft3d.so

Software 3D graphics module

devh-egalax.so

Driver for USB Egalax touch devices

devh-touchintl.so

Driver for USB Touch International touch devices

devi-semtech

Semtech input manager for Photon

devi-zytronic

Zytronic input manager for Photon

devn-asix.so

Driver for the ASIX AX88172/AX88178/AX88772 USB Ethernet dongle

devn-micrel8841.so

Driver for Micrel 8841 (1 port) or 8842 (2 port) Ethernet controllers

devn-rtl8169.so

Driver for Realtek 8169 Gigabit Ethernet controllers

devnp-ath.so

Driver for wireless network adapters based on the Atheros AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, and AR5213 chips

devnp-axe.so

Driver for USB (2.0) Ethernet adapters based on the ASIX AX88172 chip

devnp-bcm1250.so

Driver for Broadcom BCM1250 10/100/1000 Mbit Ethernet controllers

devnp-bcm43xx.so

Driver for the Broadcom-based 802.11b/g wireless Ethernet controller

devnp-bge.so

Driver for Broadcom 57xx Tigon3 10/100/1000 Mbit Ethernet controllers

devnp-i82544.so

Driver for Intel 82540, 82544, 82545, 82546, and 82547 Gigabit Ethernet LAN adapters

devnp-mpc85xx.so

Driver for Freescale MPC85XX TSEC Ethernet controllers

devnp-mpcsec.so

Hardware Crypto Engine driver

devnp-msk.so

Driver for Marvell Yukon-2 based Gigabit Ethernet adapters

devnp-ral.so, devnp-ural.so

Driver for wireless adapters based on the Ralink RT2500, RT2501, RT2600, and RT2500USB chipsets

devnp-rum.so

Driver for USB 2.0 wireless adapters based on the Ralink RT2501USB and RT2601USB chipsets

devnp-shim.so

“Shim” driver for backward compatibility with io-net

devnp-speedo.so

Driver for Intel 82557, 82558, and 82559 Fast Ethernet LAN adapters

dispconf

Generate display configuration data

enum-usb

Enumerate devices on the USB bus

fs-qnx6.so

Shared object that supports the Power-Safe filesystem (QNX Neutrino)

fs-udf.so

Shared object that supports Universal Disk Format (OSTA-UDF/ECMA-167) filesystems

fsysinfo

Display filesystem statistics (QNX Neutrino)

gf-calib

Calibrate a GF touchscreen (QNX Neutrino)

ham

High-availability manager

hamctrl

Control a high-availability manager

hostapd

Authenticator for IEEE 802.11 networks

ifwatchd

Watch for addresses added to or deleted from interfaces and call up/down-scripts for them

io-display

QNX Advanced Graphics server

lsm-autoip.so

AutoIP negotiation module for link-local addresses

lsm-pf-v4.so, lsm-pf-v6.so

Provide IP filter services

lsm-qnet.so

Transparent Distributed Processing (native QNX network) module

We added the following options:

• enforce_crc — discard packets that don't have a valid software-level CRC generated by the remote node.
• max_num_l4s — the number of interfaces.
• max_tx_bufs — the number of npkts to cache internally for transmission.
• mtu_en — the maximum transmission unit (MTU) of a Qnet packet.
• no_slog — don't send error messages to slogger
• qos_per_pri, qos_tx_pri — the priority of the pulses for the QoS periodic transmission thread and the QoS transmission thread.
• res_retries — the number of times the Ethernet resolver retries to resolve a node.
• res_ticks — the number of periodic ticks before the Ethernet resolver retransmits a node-resolution request.
• vtag — insert a four-byte vlan tag into a packet.

The combination of bind=ip and resolve=file isn't supported.

mcd

Media Content Detector utility

mkqnx6fs

Format a Power-Safe filesystem (QNX Neutrino)

/etc/nsswitch.conf

Name-service switch configuration file. This file replaces the lookup keyword in /etc/resolv.conf.

openssl

Command-line tool for using the OpenSSL crypto library

paste

Merges lines of input files, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. (POSIX)

pf

Packet Filter pseudo-device

pf.conf

Configuration file for pf

pfctl

Control the packet filter (PF) and network address translation (NAT) device

phrelaycfg

Configure remote access to your Photon session

pppoectl

Display or set parameters for a PPPOE interface

python

Object-oriented programming and scripting language

shelf

Photon shelf manager

showmem

Display memory information

showmount

Display memory information

sockstat

List the open sockets

tcpdump

Dump traffic on a network

tracelogger

We've added the -A, -c, -P, and -R options and updated the descriptions of the other options.

traceprinter

We've added the -o option.

uudecode

Decode a file that was encoded with uuencode

uuencode

Encode a binary file or standard input into ASCII

who

List the logged-in users

wpa_cli

WPA command-line client

wpa_passphrase

Set WPA passphrase for a SSID

wpa_supplicant

Wi-Fi Protected Access client and IEEE 802.1X supplicant

Deprecated content

• For information about the replacement for packagebsp, see

  http://community.qnx.com/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.bsp/wiki/Packaging_BSP
    

  on our Foundry27 community website.

• We've deleted the entries for the following drivers, some of which are for unsupported or obsolete boards:
  • deva-ctrl-cyberpro5.so
  • deva-ctrl-tahoe.so
  • devb-aha2
  • devb-aha4
  • devb-aha7
  • devb-amd
  • devb-ncr8
  • devc-amctap, devc-tamctap
  • devc_amctap_host
  • devc-hspi
  • devc-netrom540, devc-tnetrom540
  • devc-ser2681, devc-tser2681
  • devc-ser403, devc-tser403
  • devc-ser8250-ixp2400, devc-tser8250-ixp2400
  • devc-serdsiu, devc-tserdsiu
  • devc-sergt64260
  • devc-serppc800, devc-tserppc800
  • devc-serpsc
  • devc-sersci
  • devc-tcon
  • devc-tser8250
  • devc-tserzscc
  • devg-banshee.so
  • devg-igs5000.so
  • devg-mach64.so
  • devg-matrox.so
  • devg-mq200.so
  • devg-neomagic.so
  • devg-orchid.so
  • devg-pxa250.so
  • devg-q2sd.so
  • devg-ravin.so
  • devg-rotate90.so
  • devg-rotate270.so
  • devg-rpxlite.so
  • devg-s3.so
  • devg-sa1110.so
  • devg-stpc.so
  • devg-vga.so
  • devgt-iographics
  • devi-ahl
  • devi-carrol
  • devn-artesyn.so
  • devn-bcm43xx.so
  • devn-cpci-mcp750.so
  • devn-eepro.so
  • devn-el589.so
  • devn-gt64260.so
  • devn-klsi.so
  • devn-lance.so
  • devn-ne2000-403.so
  • devn-ns83815.so
  • devn-orinoco.so
  • devn-ppc405.so
  • devn-ppc800-ads.so
  • devn-ppc800-cllf.so
  • devn-ppc800-mbx.so
  • devn-ppc800-rpxlite.so
  • devn-ppc8260.so
  • devn-ppc860_mii.so
  • devn-prism.so
  • devn-rlan2.so
  • devn-tulip-p5064.so
  • devn-wd.so
  • pci-artesyn440
  • pci-artesyn750fx
  • pci-brh
  • pci-cpc700
  • pci-ixc1100
  • pci-ixp2400
  • pci-mpc8266
  • pci-p5064
  • pci-ppc440rb
  • pci-raven
  • pci-sandpoint
  • pci-yellowknife
  • startup-403evb
  • startup-603evb
  • startup-79s465
  • startup-800fads
  • startup-8260ads
  • startup-artesyn
  • startup-artesyn750fx
  • startup-aspen
  • startup-bigsur
  • startup-cpci-6750
  • startup-ddb-vrc5074
  • startup-integrator
  • startup-malta
  • startup-mbx800
  • startup-mcp750
  • startup-mcpn765
  • startup-mtx600
  • startup-mvme
  • startup-mvp
  • startup-p5064
  • startup-rpx-lite
  • startup-sa1100-mm
  • startup-sa1110-db
  • startup-sandpoint
  • startup-sengine
  • startup-vme603
  • startup-vr41xx
  • startup-walnut
• We've removed the entries for board-specific devf-* drivers. All the flash filesystem drivers use the same options as devf-generic.
• We've removed the entries related to the package filesystem:
  • fs-pkg
  • packager
  • pkgctl
  • qnxinstall
• We no longer support ARMBE, MIPSBE, and MIPSLE targets.

Changed content

cam-cdrom.so, cam-disk.so, cam-optical.so

We've documented the retries, timeout, and verbose options.

devf-generic, devf-ram

The maximum number of threads that you can specify with the -t option has increased from 4 to 100.

devn-*

We've added some information about hardware checksumming.

devn-i82544.so

We've documented the pauseignore and pausesuppress options and updated the default values for the receive and transmit options.

devn-speedo.so

We've added the probe_phy option, which you can use to enable or disable the probing of the PHY device.

df

This utility rounds its figures into 512- or 1024-byte blocks (depending on the options), and it always rounds down. If the filesystem doesn't use a block size that's a multiple of 512 bytes, some rounding errors will occur.

dinit

We recommend that you use dinit to initialize a QNX 4 filesystem, and dloader to make it bootable. The dinit bootloader options are for backwards compatibility reasons, but aren't generally used anymore.

dumper

There's a new -z option that makes dumper compress the core files.

enum-devices

• The start, requires, and driver clauses now support a /wait option that makes the enumerator pause until the command associated with the clause terminates.
• The macro for starting core networking is now IOPKT_CMD.

flashctl

There's now a section that describes the information that's displayed if you specify the -i option.

fs-cd.so

We've added these options:

• case — control how ISO-9660 filenames should be displayed. The case option can now have a value of asis.
• exe — set execute permission (on all non-RRIP regular files).
• nohsf — disable High Sierra format.

fs-dos.so

The following options have changed:

• case — new
• codepage — these names are also used for the volume label
• compat — supports a value of os2
• fat — new

fs-etfs-ram

An ETFS filesystem is no longer mounted by default; you can use the -m option or mount -tetfs /dev/etfs2 my_mountpoint.

fs-qnx4.so

We've added the following options:

• bitmap — when to pre-read .bitmap files.
• grown — allow persistent over-grown files (sticky O_APPEND allocation).

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We've deprecated the rmvbmap option; it's equivalent to bitmap=always.

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ftp, ftpd

We now use the NetBSD 4.0 version of these programs, although ftpd also supports the -n option that was added after version 4.0.

gzip

You can now use gzip to compress or expand files in a RAM filesystem (/dev/shmem), but you need to specify the -f option.

ifconfig

Updated to work with io-pkt*.

io-blk.so

• The alloc option now specifies an allocation mode instead of an amount of memory to allocate.

  The default values of the following options have changed:

  • bufsz — now 512:8K
  • fdinfo — now always
  • thread — now 12:2:5
• The optional level argument to the verbose option indicates which categories of events to log.
• We've added the marking option.

ksh

You can now use the Tab key to complete the names of files and commands.

mkifs

• We've added the cpu modifier to the description of script files.
• The /usr/lib/ldqnx.so.2 symbolic link should now point to /proc/boot/libc.so.3, and you should include libc.so.2 in the list of binaries before libc.so.
• The documentation now describes the -s option and the +|-page_align attribute.
• We've updated the default linker specification.

mount

We've documented the -a option.

mq

The /dev/mq directory doesn't appear until you actually create a queue.

mqueue

The /dev/mqueue directory doesn't appear until you actually create a queue.

nicinfo

This utility has been updated to work with io-pkt*.

The documentation now describes the -c, -g, and -s options.

pppd

For information about this daemon (including exit codes), see the NetBSD documentation. We've documented the options that are specific to Neutrino.

pidin

We've added more details about the information that the fds shorthand gives.

photon

We've added the -U, -C, and -T options.

ping

This utility has been updated to work with io-pkt*.

If a name server isn't responding, there's a timeout of 1.5 minutes per name server.

phs-to-pcl

We've updated this filter to be based on HP's Appliance Printing Development Kit (APDK), a library that generates PCL output for a wide range of HP printers. The -m model command-line option is now mandatory. The command-line options have changed; phs-to-pcl ignores those are no longer applicable.

pppoed

This binary is now simply a shim layer that phdialer uses to dial up PPPOE.

procnto*

• If you're using an SMP version of procnto, you can use the appropriate startup-* command's -P option to specify the maximum number of CPUs to activate.
• There's a new procnto-v6 version of the kernel that supports ARMv6 processors.
• There are new procnto-900 and procnto-900-smp versions of the kernel that support PowerPC 900 series processors.
• New options:
  • -en and -eo — control the value of EALREADY, which is changing so that it will be POSIX-compliant. For more information, see “Changes to EALREADY” in the entry for errno in the Neutrino Library Reference.
  • -mP — turn on full allocation of high memory for all processes. This is mostly useful only for testing.
  • -m~P — make sure that all anonymous allocation occurs below the 4 GB mark (the default).
  • -m[~]v — enable or disable variable page sizes. They're enabled by default.
  • -m[~]x — enable or disable the PROT_EXEC flag for system-allocated threads. It's enabled by default.
  • -T — specify the number of seconds to wait for a close() to succeed in the event of process termination.
  • -u — specify the umask to use when creating the entries in /proc/pid/as.

qcc

The -M option to qcc isn't changing to -Map as we warned in earlier releases; qcc continues to use -M for generating a mapfile.

qconfig

This utility doesn't list the installed packages in any particular order.

qde

We no longer ship the Neutrino-hosted IDE, so qde now runs only on Linux and Windows development hosts.

random

This utility creates /dev/urandom as well as /dev/random.

rtsold

This daemon now has an -a option that lets you autoprobe the outgoing interface.

ruptime, rwho, rwhod

The data files that these programs use are now in /var/rwho instead of /usr/spool/rwho, to conform to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

rwhod

This daemon now has -i and -u options for setting the broadcast interval and the user to run as.

setkey

Updated to work with io-pkt*.

slay

If you change the runmask for a process, the processor for blocked threads doesn't change until the threads become unblocked (or never if the threads remain blocked).

slogger

There's a new -c option that you can use to open the log file with O_SYNC to forcibly commit the logged events to the disk.

sysctl

The available variables depend on what you're running on your machine; we've described the ones that you're most likely to be interested in.

tftpd

We now use the NetBSD 3.0 version of this daemon, so the options have changed.

tinit

• We've added the -f and -t options.
• We've described the way that tinit parses its configuration file.

which

We've added the -s option, which makes the utility search for shared objects in the directories identified by the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable and the _CS_LIBPATH configuration string.

Errata

calib

We've corrected the list of options.

chkfsys

This utility doesn't prevent itself from operating when files are open for writing on the drive.

crontab

If you want the output from your commands, redirect it to a file.

devf-*

• If you specify the -V option, the driver displays the filesystem and MTD version information, and then exits.
• The bwidth and ileave values for the -s option must be powers of 2, but you don't specify them as powers of 2. For example, if the width of the data bus is 8, specify a bwidth of 8, not 3 (for 2³).

etfsctl

Existing IPLs and bootloaders can't boot from an image in an embedded transaction filesystem.

find

We've corrected the description of the %a and %A formatting codes.

lpr

The printer argument to the -P option must be a printer name that's defined in /etc/printcap.

mkifs

• You can use mkifs to build nonbootable images. For an example, see the Making Multiple Images technote.
• You have to specify both image and ram file attributes if you want to create the image in ROM/FLASH; otherwise the process manager assumes that the image is in RAM.
• The mkifs utilities no longer strips the QNX_Phab (Photon resources), QNX_usage (usage message), and QNX_info (build properties) sections by default. You can use the -s option to specify additional sections not to be stripped.
• Startup code can be decompressed in place.
• Attributes that you specify with attr=image_attribute in the bootfile are processed after the -l (“el”) command-line options and the buildfile, but you normally use the ? prefix on the image_attribute, so that it doesn't override anything explicitly set by the -l option or the buildfile.

ntpd

After the machine has synchronized to a NTP server, the operating system time gets synchronized and corrected from time to time. This doesn't set the hardware clock; you can use the rtc utility to set the time on the chip.

pidin

If you use pidin thread or pidin -F%h to display the thread names, and a thread doesn't have a name, pidin displays the thread's ID (tid) instead.

procnto*

• The example implied that using the -p option disables preemption; it actually disables preemption only in the kernel code.
• Specifying the -as option on SH platforms is the same as specifying -ad, not -ae.

random

If an error occurs, random sends a message to slogger, not to stderr.

renice

This utility changes the priority of all the threads in the specified process or processes.

slogger

We've corrected the description of /dev/console, what happens when multiple applications open /dev/slog for reading, and the example of alternating between files.

startup-*

The -R option can include an alignment as well as a size.

What's new in QNX Momentics 6.3.2?

New entries

devb-umass

• There's a new iface= option for specifying the interface number of the device.
• There's a new ignore_csw option that makes the driver ignore the Command Status Wrapper.

devc-con-hid

This console and keyboard I/O manager is similar to devc-con, but works in conjunction with io-hid and supports PS2, USB, and all other human-interface devices.

devc-serpsc

PSC UART serial communications manager for MPC5200

devg-carmine.so

Graphics driver for Fujitsu Carmine chipsets

devg-extreme2.so

Graphics driver for Intel Extreme2 chipsets

devg-vmware.so

Graphics driver for VMWare virtual machines

devn-rtl8150.so

Driver for SMC2208 USB/Ethernet adapters

packagebsp

Package a board support package (QNX Neutrino)

setupbsp

Set up a Board Support Package (QNX Neutrino)

startup-bios

The -I option is now documented. You can use this option to specify the highest-priority hardware interrupt.

use

There's a new -s option that you can use to display the version numbers of the source used in the executable.

Changed content

devc-sersci

Added the default values for the -r option for SH7770 and SH7780.

devu-prn

Added the -m option.

flashctl

This utility rounds the values of the -o and -l (“el”) options down to the nearest block bound. If the range specified exceeds the partition size, it's rounded down to fit. If you use the -v option, flashctl displays what the values have been rounded to.

io-blk.so

• Added the before and after options.
• If you specify the verbose option, the extra information is sent to the system logger. The optional level argument indicates which categories of events to log.

mkifs

This entry now describes the main bootfiles, including raw.boot, elf.boot, binary.boot, and srec.boot; see the “Bootfile” section.

You might need to use the perms attribute to specify execute, setuid, and setgid permissions if you're running mkifs on a Windows host.

mount

Added the before and after options, and added io-usb to the table of mount types.

qconfig

Added the -c option.

pidin

The CPU usage that pidin times reports are approximate, and can be inaccurate.

rpcbind

This utility needs /etc/netconfig, the librpc shared library, as well as some specific entries in /etc/services.

setuid utilities

The following utilities need to have the setuid bit set in their permissions: crontab; dhcp.client; fontsleuth; input-cfg; inputtrap; login; lpr; lprq; lprrm; netstat; newgrp; passwd; phfont; phgrafx; phlocale; Photon; phshutdown; phuser; ping; ping6; pppd; pppoed; qnxinstall; rcp; rlogin; rsh; su; traceroute; traceroute6.

Errata

devf-*

We've corrected the description of the -r option for the devf-* drivers. You should always specify this option, unless you're debugging a problem concerning filesystem corruption.

grep

Only grep supports the -h option (which is a Neutrino extension); egrep and fgrep don't.

mkefs, mketfs, mkifs

The description of the perms is now correct; for an inline file, the default permissions are 0666.

show_vesa

You must log in as root and be in text mode — not Photon — to run this utility. This utility doesn't have any options.

stty

The stty under Neutrino doesn't support the lkhflow or lksflow option.

What's new in QNX Neutrino Core OS 6.3.2?

New entries

aps

Manage adaptive scheduler partitions

Changed content

devb-ram

Added address, blksize, and nodinit to the list of ram options.

mkifs

Now includes the module attribute for loading optional modules into procnto.

on

Now includes -C, -i, and -R options for specifying the runmask for the new process.

pidin

Now includes H, h, i, and o formatting codes, and extsched, fds, regs, sched, and threads shorthand names.

procnto

Now includes -m and -c options.

slay

Now includes -C, -i, and -R options for manipulating the runmask, and -T for identifying the thread that you want to send a signal to or whose runmask or priority you want to change. Also includes -m option to restrict the match.

-P without -T now affects all threads in the specified proccess or processes. Previously it affected only thread 1.

This utility now matches process IDs or names; you can use the new -m option to limit which it matches.

startup-*

Now include a -F option to control the flags field in the cpuinfo section of the system page.

qconfig

Added the -a, -b, and -p options.

Errata

dcheck

Corrected the name of the .bad_blks file.

passwd

The second field of entries in the /etc/passwd file is an x. It represents the group password, which Neutrino doesn't support.

What's new in 6.3.0 Service Pack 2?

New entries

addr2line

Convert addresses into line number/file name pairs

bindres

Bind widget resources into an executable

c++filt

Demangle C++ and Java symbols

g++

Compile a program

mq

A new server to manage POSIX message queues. This is an alternate implementation that uses asynchronous messages

phfind

Photon file search utility

ranlib

Index an archive

Changed content

devg-*

Changed the -amode option in all the devg-* driver docs to mode_opt

devu-kbd

Reinstated class driver for USB keyboards

devu-mouse

Reinstated class driver for USB mice

esh, fesh

Added the emount and ewaitfor builtin commands.

nto*-* variants

Added synopsis information for the ntoarm-*, ntomips-*, ntomulti-*, ntoppc-*, ntosh-*, ntox86-* variants of: ar, gcc, gcov, gdb, gprof, ld, nm, objcopy, objdump, size, strings, and strip.

qcc

The -w9 option's behavior is specifically documented, with additional options necessary to report all warnings.

qconn

Added more description to the qconn_prio= option to prevent errors when the system is under heavy load.

sendnto

Documented -b option.

su

Documented - userid argument.

tracelogger

Now accepts control commands through its device, devctl() and pulses, and has a new option (-c).

uesh

Added the emount and ewaitfor builtin commands.

usemsg

%1> and %2> macros fixed (were previously documented as %0> and %1>).

usemsg also uses objcopy by default instead of ldrel.

Errata

io-blk.so

If you don't specify a full path for the device in the automount option, io-blk.so uses the value of its devdir option as a prefix.

What's new in 6.3.0 Service Pack 1?

New entries

dumpefs

Dump an embedded filesystem

gcov

Gather code coverage data

gprof

Code profiler

lsm-sctp.so

SCTP service module

qde

Launch QNX development environment

unzip

Extract zip files

zip

Compress and package files

Changed content

bootpd

Now included in the Neutrino runtime.

devb-ncr8

Added the did option.

devf-*

Removed references to ffs2 and removed mountpoint/.cmp from all the devf-* drivers.

devg-matroxg.so

Added more information to the supported chipsets and a note about multiple displays on quad-output cards.

devg-radeon.so

Removed the -amode=TV option and added information about dual-headed display.

dhcp.client

Added the -T option and a description of the /etc/dhcp/dhcp-options file.

getconf

Added _CS_LOCALE to the list of configuration strings.

io-net

The /dev/io-net directory doesn't appear until a driver or protocol module adds an entry to it.

npm-qnet-l4_lite.so

Qnet is designed to work using its default settings; don't use the options to npm-qnet-l4_lite.so unless you have a specific problem with your environment.

pppd

Added a caveat about spawning pppd with the nodetach or updetach option.

phfont

Added the new -b option to save font usage information to a file.

setconf

Corrected the list of configuration strings.

What's new in 6.3.0?

New entries

bkgdmgr

Photon background manager

devb-adpu320

Adaptec 7901/7902-based SCSI adapters

devb-umass

Driver for USB mass storage interface

devc-hspi

Serial driver for Renesas protocol interface

devc-ser8250-ixp2400

Serial driver for Intel IXP425 BSP

devc-sergt64260

Serial driver for Artesyn PM/PPC 750FX BSP

devf-brh

Driver for ADI BRH BSP

devf-ixdp425

Driver for Intel XScale IXDP425 BSP

devg-chips.so

Graphics driver for Chips and Technologies graphics

devg-coral.so

Graphics driver for Fujitsu Coral chipsets

devg-flat.so

Graphics driver for unaccelerated flat frame buffers.

devg-i830.so

Graphics driver for Intel I830 and I845 chipsets

devg-sis630.so

Graphics driver for SIS graphics chipsets

devg-tvia.so

Graphics driver for TVIA CyberPro chipsets

devg-smi5xx.so

Graphics driver for Silicon Motion SM501 chipset

devg-smi7xx.so

Graphics driver for Silicon Motion Lynx controller

devg-rotate90.so

Transform module used for graphics rotation

devg-rotate270.so

Transform module used for graphics rotation

devn-dm9102.so

Driver for Davicom DM9102 Ethernet controllers

devn-tigon3.so

Driver for Broadcom BCM570X Ethernet controllers

devu-ehci.so

Driver for Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) for USB 2.0

devu-ohci.so

Driver for Open Host Controller Interface (OHCI) for USB 2.0

devu-uhci.so

Driver for Universal Host Controller Interface (UHCI) for USB 2.0

fontview

Font viewer utility

gri-photon.so

Photon plugin

gns

Global Name Service Manager

hogs

List the processes that are hogging the CPU

icc

Intel C and C++ compiler

io-usb

Server for Universal Serial Bus (USB)

ipf

Alter packet filtering lists

ipfs

Save and restore information for NAT and stat tables

ipfstat

Report on packet filter statistics and filter list

ipmon

Monitor /dev/ipl for logged packets

ipnat

User interface to NAT

lsm-ipfilter-*.so

Provide IP filter services

mksbp

Build a QNX System Builder project

mmplay

Multimedia player

netfront

NetFront web server

nfm-autoip.so

AutoIP negotiation module for link-local address

npm-qnet-compat.so

Native QNX Neutrino network manager — compatible version

npm-qnet-l4_lite.so

Lightweight version of native QNX Neutrino network manager

npm-tcpip-v4.so

The original full TCP/IP stack (QNX Neutrino)

npm-tcpip-v6.so

The full TCP/IP stack for IPv6 packets (QNX Neutrino)

ntpd

Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon

ntpdate

Set the local time and date by polling NTP servers

ntpdc

Query the NTP daemon

ntpq

Monitor NTP daemon and determine its performance

ntptrace

Trace a chain of NTP servers

od

Dump a file in various formats (POSIX)

omshell

Connect, query and change ISC DHCP server's state

pci-brh

PCI controller for ADI BRH BSP

pci-ixc1100

PCI controller for IXDP425 BSP

pci-ixp2400

PCI controller for IXP2400 BSP

pci-ppc440rb

PCI controller for PPC 440GP BSP

phlogin2

Photon login utility

phmenu

Photon window menu editor

phs-to-ijs

Photon IJS printing client

phuser

Photon user account manager

playaudio

Play an audio stream

qconfig

Query and display QNX installations and configurations

qnxplayer

CD and audio file player

QWinCfg

Query and display QNX installations and configurations on Windows

rpcbind

Map RPC program numbers into universal addresses

rpcgen

An RPC protocol compiler

script

Create a typescript of a terminal session

startup-artesyn750fx

Startup for the Artesyn PM/PPC 750FX evaluation board

uud

Decode a file that was encoded with uue

uue

Encode a binary file into ASCII

Deleted entries

cl-installer

Use qnxinstall instead.

devu-kbd

Class driver for USB keyboards

devu-mouse

Class driver for USB mice

devu-ohci

USB manager for OHCI controllers

devu-uhci

USB managers for UHCI controllers

phflash

Shockwave Flash player

phfontFA

Photon Font Server (full font support)

phfontFF

Photon Font Server (Bitmap and FontFusion support)

phfontpfr

Photon Font Server (TrueDoc font support)

phfontphf

Photon Font Server (no scalable font support)

plaympegaudio_noph

Deprecated; replaced by playaudio

playsound_noph

Deprecated; replaced by playaudio

portmap

Deprecated; replaced by rpcbind utility.

startup-sc400

Deprecated; replaced by startup-bios.

devg-chips-hiqv.so

This driver is deprecated.

devg-igs5300.so

This driver is deprecated.

Changed content

devp-pccard

Added new options to the documentation.

diff

Updated the documentation to reflect the GNU version of diff instead of the POSIX version.

dumper

Added the -s and -w options.

fontadmin

Added description of the new font options schema.

io-graphics

There are several changes to the documentation for this utility, including a description of crtc-settings file support, a new command line syntax, and a description of the configuration file and multiple display support.

io-net

Added option and drivers.

mkdir

Removed the -s option.

mkfontdir

Removed the -c option.

on

The -p option now supports sporadic scheduling.

ped

Added description of drag and drop behaviour from pfm.

pfm

Added a description of preferences, including the new alternate encoding feature.

phabmsg

Added filename command line option.

phfont

Changed options to support new font architecture.

phlocale

The interface is changed, and ABLANG is now handled differently.

phlogin

Described a configuration file for your shell to run as a login shell.

pterm

New -r option.

qnxinstall

New options and functionality.

savercfg

Added new GUI, which includes the option to use the system password, and power saver options. The location of the saver.cfg file has also changed.

sin

The output of the register command now includes the instruction pointer as the first register.

snapshot

Added note that snapshot doesn't work in a phditto window.

voyager

New list of keyboard shortcuts, and updated with netfront information.

Errata

ksh

Deleted the -F option.

What's new in 6.2.1?

New entries

addvariant

Add a new OS/CPU/VARIANT directory structure to a source tree

devc-amctap

Serial communications manager for AMC WireTAP/PowerTAP

devc_amctap_host

Windows host server for devc-amctap

devf-bigsur

SH4 7751 Big Sur eval board

devg-pxa250.so

Graphics driver for Intel PXA250 LCD controller

devh-usb.so

Driver for USB-compliant human-interface devices (HID)

devh-ps2ser.so

Driver for serial and PS2 human-interface devices (HID)

devi-hid

Universal Photon input manager for keyboards and mice

devn-i82544.so

Network driver for Intel Gigabit Ethernet LAN adapters

devn-ppc405.so

Network driver for IBM PPC405 on-chip Ethernet controller

devn-prism.so

Network driver for PRISM-based wireless Ethernet controller

hidview

Display HID device information

io-hid

Start a manager for HID input devices

qnxinstall

GUI-based QNX Software Installer (QSI)

startup-aspen

Startup the Renesas Aspen evaluation board (SH)

waitfor

Wait until a path exists

Deleted entries

ci

Check in RCS revisions (UNIX)

co

Check out RCS revisions (UNIX)

pkg-installer

Use qnxinstall instead.

rcs

Change RCS file attributes (UNIX)

rcsclean

Clean up working files (UNIX)

rcsdiff

Compare RCS revisions (UNIX)

rcsmerge

Merge RCS revisions (UNIX)

Changed content

devb-eide

Added the lba48 option.

devb-ncr8

Added the nosync and nowide options.

devg-radeon.so

The DVI (digital video interface) is enabled by default, so you can connect LCD panels to your Radeon cards. The only requirement is that you connect the LCD to the DVI connector at boot time so the video BIOS can set up the digital output.

devn-*

The verbose option has been standardized and its output now goes to slogger (view using sloginfo).

diskboot

Removed -f option

dumper

Clarified home directory behavior

flashctl

Added example to clarify partition organization.

login

Clarified the behavior of the -f option

mkifs

Clarified the type note and added the dperms attribute

mkkbd

Changes due to new input architecture.

ph

You can now use the PHGFX and PHINPUT environment variables to speciify the commands that you want to use to start the graphics and input drivers.

pidin

Added the irqs, net, rc, and timers shorthand names.

ping

Added many new options

qconn

Added *_prio options

sendnto

General updates, clarifications and corrections

sin

Explained side-channels

startup-*

Added the -x option for PowerPC and x86 boards.

telnet

Removed -a, -l, and -K options

Errata

phshutdown, shutdown

Corrected SIGPWR to SIGTERM