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Writing a Resource Manager
What Is a Resource Manager?
In general terms, a resource manager is a process that registers a name in the filesystem name space. Other processes use that path to communicate with the resource manager.
Examples of resource managers
Robot arm

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    - What Is a Resource Manager?
      In general terms, a resource manager is a process that registers a name in the filesystem name space. Other processes use that path to communicate with the resource manager.
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Robot arm

You could also use command-line utilities for a robot-arm driver. The driver could register the name, /dev/robot/arm/angle, and any writes to this device are interpreted as the angle to set the robot arm to. To test the driver from the command line, you'd type:

echo 87 >/dev/robot/arm/angle

The echo utility opens /dev/robot/arm/angle and writes the string (87) to it. The driver handles the write by setting the robot arm to 87 degrees. Note that this was accomplished without writing a special tester program.

Another example would be names such as /dev/robot/registers/r1, r2, ... Reading from these names returns the contents of the corresponding registers; writing to these names set the corresponding registers to the given values.

Even if all of your other IPC is done via some non-POSIX API, it's still worth having one thread written as a resource manager for responding to reads and writes for doing things as shown above.

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