Brice Rebsamen wrote:
> Here is a brief description of my problem: I have a robot controlled
> by an embedded computer running under QNX (which is posix compliant).
> For debugging purpose I would like to monitor some of the internal
> data in real time from a remote computer on a LAN.
>
> I can write a serialize / deserialize - client / server framework.
> It's a small scale application so it won't be (too) difficult. But I
> am wondering if there was anything existing already since Linux is
> good at networking.
>
> I thought that maybe I could use some IPC technology. Maybe like
> remote access to a shared memory. Would it be possible between 2 linux
> computers in the first place? If so it should also be possible with
> one QNX end (I'll check with the QNX guys).

I don't know much about QNX, but some googling indicates the ONC RPC
(formerly called Sun RPC) may just be available for QNX. So you might
be able to set up a small RPC server and make remote calls to it from
a remote client on Linux.

- Logan