diff --git a/ndnboost/config/platform/vxworks.hpp b/ndnboost/config/platform/vxworks.hpp
index 92aeade..b94c329 100644
--- a/ndnboost/config/platform/vxworks.hpp
+++ b/ndnboost/config/platform/vxworks.hpp
@@ -1,31 +1,369 @@
-//  (C) Copyright Dustin Spicuzza 2009. 
-//  Use, modification and distribution are subject to the 
-//  Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file 
+//  (C) Copyright Dustin Spicuzza 2009.
+//      Adapted to vxWorks 6.9 by Peter Brockamp 2012.
+//  Use, modification and distribution are subject to the
+//  Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file
 //  LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
 
 //  See http://www.boost.org for most recent version.
 
-//  vxWorks specific config options:
+//  Since WRS does not yet properly support boost under vxWorks
+//  and this file was badly outdated, but I was keen on using it,
+//  I patched boost myself to make things work. This has been tested
+//  and adapted by me for vxWorks 6.9 *only*, as I'm lacking access
+//  to earlier 6.X versions! The only thing I know for sure is that
+//  very old versions of vxWorks (namely everything below 6.x) are
+//  absolutely unable to use boost. This is mainly due to the completely
+//  outdated libraries and ancient compiler (GCC 2.96 or worse). Do
+//  not even think of getting this to work, a miserable failure will
+//  be guaranteed!
+//  Equally, this file has been tested for RTPs (Real Time Processes)
+//  only, not for DKMs (Downloadable Kernel Modules). These two types
+//  of executables differ largely in the available functionality of
+//  the C-library, STL, and so on. A DKM uses a library similar to those
+//  of vxWorks 5.X - with all its limitations and incompatibilities
+//  with respect to ANSI C++ and STL. So probably there might be problems
+//  with the usage of boost from DKMs. WRS or any voluteers are free to
+//  prove the opposite!
 
-#define BOOST_PLATFORM "vxWorks"
+// ====================================================================
+//
+// Some important information regarding the usage of POSIX semaphores:
+// -------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// VxWorks as a real time operating system handles threads somewhat
+// different from what "normal" OSes do, regarding their scheduling!
+// This could lead to a scenario called "priority inversion" when using
+// semaphores, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_inversion.
+//
+// Now, VxWorks POSIX-semaphores for DKM's default to the usage of
+// priority inverting semaphores, which is fine. On the other hand,
+// for RTP's it defaults to using non priority inverting semaphores,
+// which could easily pose a serious problem for a real time process,
+// i.e. deadlocks! To overcome this two possibilities do exist:
+//
+// a) Patch every piece of boost that uses semaphores to instanciate
+//    the proper type of semaphores. This is non-intrusive with respect
+//    to the OS and could relatively easy been done by giving all
+//    semaphores attributes deviating from the default (for in-depth
+//    information see the POSIX functions pthread_mutexattr_init()
+//    and pthread_mutexattr_setprotocol()). However this breaks all
+//    too easily, as with every new version some boost library could
+//    all in a sudden start using semaphores, resurrecting the very
+//    same, hard to locate problem over and over again!
+//
+// b) We could change the default properties for POSIX-semaphores
+//    that VxWorks uses for RTP's and this is being suggested here,
+//    as it will more or less seamlessly integrate with boost. I got
+//    the following information from WRS how to do this, compare
+//    Wind River TSR# 1209768:
+//
+// Instructions for changing the default properties of POSIX-
+// semaphores for RTP's in VxWorks 6.9:
+// - Edit the file /vxworks-6.9/target/usr/src/posix/pthreadLib.c
+//   in the root of your Workbench-installation.
+// - Around line 917 there should be the definition of the default
+//   mutex attributes:
+//
+//   LOCAL pthread_mutexattr_t defaultMutexAttr =
+//       {
+//       PTHREAD_INITIALIZED_OBJ, PTHREAD_PRIO_NONE, 0,
+//       PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
+//       };
+//
+//   Here, replace PTHREAD_PRIO_NONE by PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT.
+// - Around line 1236 there should be a definition for the function
+//   pthread_mutexattr_init(). A couple of lines below you should
+//   find a block of code like this:
+//
+//   pAttr->mutexAttrStatus      = PTHREAD_INITIALIZED_OBJ;
+//   pAttr->mutexAttrProtocol    = PTHREAD_PRIO_NONE;
+//   pAttr->mutexAttrPrioceiling = 0;
+//   pAttr->mutexAttrType        = PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT;
+//
+//   Here again, replace PTHREAD_PRIO_NONE by PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT.
+// - Finally, rebuild your VSB. This will create a new VxWorks kernel
+//   with the changed properties. That's it! Now, using boost should
+//   no longer cause any problems with task deadlocks!
+//
+// And here's another useful piece of information concerning VxWorks'
+// POSIX-functionality in general:
+// VxWorks is not a genuine POSIX-OS in itself, rather it is using a
+// kind of compatibility layer (sort of a wrapper) to emulate the
+// POSIX-functionality by using its own resources and functions.
+// At the time a task (thread) calls it's first POSIX-function during
+// runtime it is being transformed by the OS into a POSIX-thread.
+// This transformation does include a call to malloc() to allocate the
+// memory required for the housekeeping of POSIX-threads. In a high
+// priority RTP this malloc() call may be highly undesirable, as its
+// timing is more or less unpredictable (depending on what your actual
+// heap looks like). You can circumvent this problem by calling the
+// function thread_self() at a well defined point in the code of the
+// task, e.g. shortly after the task spawns up. Thereby you are able
+// to define the time when the task-transformation will take place and
+// you could shift it to an uncritical point where a malloc() call is
+// tolerable. So, if this could pose a problem for your code, remember
+// to call thread_self() from the affected task at an early stage.
+//
+// ====================================================================
 
-#define BOOST_NO_CWCHAR
-#define BOOST_NO_INTRINSIC_WCHAR_T
-
-#if defined(__GNUC__) && defined(__STRICT_ANSI__)
-#define BOOST_NO_INT64_T
+// Block out all versions before vxWorks 6.x, as these don't work:
+// Include header with the vxWorks version information and query them
+#include <version.h>
+#if !defined(_WRS_VXWORKS_MAJOR) || (_WRS_VXWORKS_MAJOR < 6)
+#  error "The vxWorks version you're using is so badly outdated,\
+          it doesn't work at all with boost, sorry, no chance!"
 #endif
 
+// Handle versions above 5.X but below 6.9
+#if (_WRS_VXWORKS_MAJOR == 6) && (_WRS_VXWORKS_MINOR < 9)
+// TODO: Starting from what version does vxWorks work with boost?
+// We can't reasonably insert a #warning "" as a user hint here,
+// as this will show up with every file including some boost header,
+// badly bugging the user... So for the time being we just leave it.
+#endif
+
+// vxWorks specific config options:
+// --------------------------------
+#define BOOST_PLATFORM "vxWorks"
+
+// Special behaviour for DKMs:
+#ifdef _WRS_KERNEL
+  // DKMs do not have the <cwchar>-header,
+  // but apparently they do have an intrinsic wchar_t meanwhile!
+#  define BOOST_NO_CWCHAR
+
+  // Lots of wide-functions and -headers are unavailable for DKMs as well:
+#  define BOOST_NO_CWCTYPE
+#  define BOOST_NO_SWPRINTF
+#  define BOOST_NO_STD_WSTRING
+#  define BOOST_NO_STD_WSTREAMBUF
+#endif
+
+// Generally available headers:
 #define BOOST_HAS_UNISTD_H
+#define BOOST_HAS_STDINT_H
+#define BOOST_HAS_DIRENT_H
+#define BOOST_HAS_SLIST
 
-// these allow posix_features to work, since vxWorks doesn't
-// define them itself
-#define _POSIX_TIMERS 1
-#define _POSIX_THREADS 1
+// vxWorks does not have installed an iconv-library by default,
+// so unfortunately no Unicode support from scratch is available!
+// Thus, instead it is suggested to switch to ICU, as this seems
+// to be the most complete and portable option...
+#define BOOST_LOCALE_WITH_ICU
 
-// vxworks doesn't work with asio serial ports
+// Generally available functionality:
+#define BOOST_HAS_THREADS
+#define BOOST_HAS_NANOSLEEP
+#define BOOST_HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY
+#define BOOST_HAS_CLOCK_GETTIME
+#define BOOST_HAS_MACRO_USE_FACET
+
+// Generally unavailable functionality, delivered by boost's test function:
+//#define BOOST_NO_DEDUCED_TYPENAME // Commented this out, boost's test gives an errorneous result!
+#define BOOST_NO_CXX11_EXTERN_TEMPLATE
+#define BOOST_NO_CXX11_VARIADIC_MACROS
+
+// Generally available threading API's:
+#define BOOST_HAS_PTHREADS
+#define BOOST_HAS_SCHED_YIELD
+#define BOOST_HAS_SIGACTION
+
+// Functionality available for RTPs only:
+#ifdef __RTP__
+#  define BOOST_HAS_PTHREAD_MUTEXATTR_SETTYPE
+#  define BOOST_HAS_LOG1P
+#  define BOOST_HAS_EXPM1
+#endif
+
+// Functionality available for DKMs only:
+#ifdef _WRS_KERNEL
+  // Luckily, at the moment there seems to be none!
+#endif
+
+// These #defines allow posix_features to work, since vxWorks doesn't
+// #define them itself for DKMs (for RTPs on the contrary it does):
+#ifdef _WRS_KERNEL
+#  ifndef _POSIX_TIMERS
+#    define _POSIX_TIMERS  1
+#  endif
+#  ifndef _POSIX_THREADS
+#    define _POSIX_THREADS 1
+#  endif
+#endif
+
+// vxWorks doesn't work with asio serial ports:
 #define BOOST_ASIO_DISABLE_SERIAL_PORT
+// TODO: The problem here seems to bee that vxWorks uses its own, very specific
+//       ways to handle serial ports, incompatible with POSIX or anything...
+//       Maybe a specific implementation would be possible, but until the
+//       straight need arises... This implementation would presumably consist
+//       of some vxWorks specific ioctl-calls, etc. Any voluteers?
 
-// boilerplate code:
+// vxWorks-around: <time.h> #defines CLOCKS_PER_SEC as sysClkRateGet() but
+//                 miserably fails to #include the required <sysLib.h> to make
+//                 sysClkRateGet() available! So we manually include it here.
+#ifdef __RTP__
+#  include <time.h>
+#  include <sysLib.h>
+#endif
+
+// vxWorks-around: In <stdint.h> the macros INT32_C(), UINT32_C(), INT64_C() and
+//                 UINT64_C() are defined errorneously, yielding not a signed/
+//                 unsigned long/long long type, but a signed/unsigned int/long
+//                 type. Eventually this leads to compile errors in ratio_fwd.hpp,
+//                 when trying to define several constants which do not fit into a
+//                 long type! We correct them here by redefining.
+#include <cstdint>
+
+// Some macro-magic to do the job
+#define VX_JOIN(X, Y)     VX_DO_JOIN(X, Y)
+#define VX_DO_JOIN(X, Y)  VX_DO_JOIN2(X, Y)
+#define VX_DO_JOIN2(X, Y) X##Y
+
+// Correctly setup the macros
+#undef  INT32_C
+#undef  UINT32_C
+#undef  INT64_C
+#undef  UINT64_C
+#define INT32_C(x)  VX_JOIN(x, L)
+#define UINT32_C(x) VX_JOIN(x, UL)
+#define INT64_C(x)  VX_JOIN(x, LL)
+#define UINT64_C(x) VX_JOIN(x, ULL)
+
+// #include Libraries required for the following function adaption
+#include <ioLib.h>
+#include <tickLib.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+
+// Use C-linkage for the following helper functions
+extern "C" {
+
+// vxWorks-around: The required functions getrlimit() and getrlimit() are missing.
+//                 But we have the similar functions getprlimit() and setprlimit(),
+//                 which may serve the purpose.
+//                 Problem: The vxWorks-documentation regarding these functions
+//                 doesn't deserve its name! It isn't documented what the first two
+//                 parameters idtype and id mean, so we must fall back to an educated
+//                 guess - null, argh... :-/
+
+// TODO: getprlimit() and setprlimit() do exist for RTPs only, for whatever reason.
+//       Thus for DKMs there would have to be another implementation.
+#ifdef __RTP__
+  inline int getrlimit(int resource, struct rlimit *rlp){
+    return getprlimit(0, 0, resource, rlp);
+  }
+
+  inline int setrlimit(int resource, const struct rlimit *rlp){
+    return setprlimit(0, 0, resource, const_cast<struct rlimit*>(rlp));
+  }
+#endif
+
+// vxWorks has ftruncate() only, so we do simulate truncate():
+inline int truncate(const char *p, off_t l){
+  int fd = open(p, O_WRONLY);
+  if (fd == -1){
+    errno = EACCES;
+    return -1;
+  }
+  if (ftruncate(fd, l) == -1){
+    close(fd);
+    errno = EACCES;
+    return -1;
+  }
+  return close(fd);
+}
+
+// Fake symlink handling by dummy functions:
+inline int symlink(const char*, const char*){
+  // vxWorks has no symlinks -> always return an error!
+  errno = EACCES;
+  return -1;
+}
+
+inline ssize_t readlink(const char*, char*, size_t){
+  // vxWorks has no symlinks -> always return an error!
+  errno = EACCES;
+  return -1;
+}
+
+// vxWorks claims to implement gettimeofday in sys/time.h
+// but nevertheless does not provide it! See
+// https://support.windriver.com/olsPortal/faces/maintenance/techtipDetail_noHeader.jspx?docId=16442&contentId=WR_TECHTIP_006256
+// We implement a surrogate version here via clock_gettime:
+inline int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, void * /*tzv*/) {
+  struct timespec ts;
+  clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts);
+  tv->tv_sec  = ts.tv_sec;
+  tv->tv_usec = ts.tv_nsec / 1000;
+  return 0;
+}
+
+// vxWorks does provide neither struct tms nor function times()!
+// We implement an empty dummy-function, simply setting the user
+// and system time to the half of thew actual system ticks-value
+// and the child user and system time to 0.
+// Rather ugly but at least it suppresses compiler errors...
+// Unfortunately, this of course *does* have an severe impact on
+// dependant libraries, actually this is chrono only! Here it will
+// not be possible to correctly use user and system times! But
+// as vxWorks is lacking the ability to calculate user and system
+// process times there seems to be no other possible solution.
+struct tms{
+  clock_t tms_utime;  // User CPU time
+  clock_t tms_stime;  // System CPU time
+  clock_t tms_cutime; // User CPU time of terminated child processes
+  clock_t tms_cstime; // System CPU time of terminated child processes
+};
+
+inline clock_t times(struct tms *t){
+  struct timespec ts;
+  clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, &ts);
+  clock_t ticks(static_cast<clock_t>(static_cast<double>(ts.tv_sec)  * CLOCKS_PER_SEC +
+                                     static_cast<double>(ts.tv_nsec) * CLOCKS_PER_SEC / 1000000.0));
+  t->tms_utime  = ticks/2U;
+  t->tms_stime  = ticks/2U;
+  t->tms_cutime = 0; // vxWorks is lacking the concept of a child process!
+  t->tms_cstime = 0; // -> Set the wait times for childs to 0
+  return ticks;
+}
+
+} // extern "C"
+
+// Put the selfmade functions into the std-namespace, just in case
+namespace std {
+# ifdef __RTP__
+    using ::getrlimit;
+    using ::setrlimit;
+# endif
+  using ::truncate;
+  using ::symlink;
+  using ::readlink;
+  using ::times;
+  using ::gettimeofday;
+}
+
+// Some more macro-magic:
+// vxWorks-around: Some functions are not present or broken in vxWorks
+//                 but may be patched to life via helper macros...
+
+// Include signal.h which might contain a typo to be corrected here
+#include <signal.h>
+
+#define getpagesize()    sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE)         // getpagesize is deprecated anyway!
+#ifndef S_ISSOCK
+#  define S_ISSOCK(mode) ((mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFSOCK) // Is file a socket?
+#endif
+#define lstat(p, b)      stat(p, b)                    // lstat() == stat(), as vxWorks has no symlinks!
+#ifndef FPE_FLTINV
+#  define FPE_FLTINV     (FPE_FLTSUB+1)                // vxWorks has no FPE_FLTINV, so define one as a dummy
+#endif
+#if !defined(BUS_ADRALN) && defined(BUS_ADRALNR)
+#  define BUS_ADRALN     BUS_ADRALNR                   // Correct a supposed typo in vxWorks' <signal.h>
+#endif
+//typedef int              locale_t;                     // locale_t is a POSIX-extension, currently unpresent in vxWorks!
+
+// #include boilerplate code:
 #include <ndnboost/config/posix_features.hpp>
- 
+
+// vxWorks lies about XSI conformance, there is no nl_types.h:
+#undef BOOST_HAS_NL_TYPES_H
diff --git a/ndnboost/config/platform/win32.hpp b/ndnboost/config/platform/win32.hpp
index 3922012..6ab59f4 100644
--- a/ndnboost/config/platform/win32.hpp
+++ b/ndnboost/config/platform/win32.hpp
@@ -33,7 +33,9 @@
 
 #if defined(__MINGW32__) && ((__MINGW32_MAJOR_VERSION > 2) || ((__MINGW32_MAJOR_VERSION == 2) && (__MINGW32_MINOR_VERSION >= 0)))
 #  define BOOST_HAS_STDINT_H
-#  define __STDC_LIMIT_MACROS
+#  ifndef __STDC_LIMIT_MACROS
+#     define __STDC_LIMIT_MACROS
+#  endif
 #  define BOOST_HAS_DIRENT_H
 #  define BOOST_HAS_UNISTD_H
 #endif