Reduced kernel size by 512KB by moving private buffer into cstart() function.
Replaced assertions with erroneous return values. Removed assertions relating
to isuserp(rp), since all processes should become user processes; system
processes are now treated similar to other processes.
* Removed some variants of the SYS_GETINFO calls from the kernel;
replaced them with new PM and utils libary functionality. Fixed
bugs in utils library that used old get_kenv() variant.
* Implemented a buffer in the kernel to gather random data.
Memory driver periodically checks this for /dev/random.
A better random algorithm can now be implemented in the driver.
Removed SYS_RANDOM; the SYS_GETINFO call is used instead.
* Remove SYS_KMALLOC from the kernel. Memory allocation can now
be done at the process manager with new 'other' library functions.
when lock timing is enabled in minix/config.h.
Added phys_zero() routine to klib386.s that zeroes a range of memory, and
added corresponding system call.
This allowed removing the p_flagarlm timer from the kernel's process table.
Furthermore, I merged p_syncalrm and p_signalrm into p_alarm_timer to save
even more space. Note that processes can no longer have both a signal and
synchronous alarm timer outstanding as of now.
size wraparound), one to see if the size fits in the designated segment.
It seems this check wasn't done. This came to light when trying to pre-check
the users buffer for read() and write() in using the vectored virtual
copy system call in servers/fs/read.c.
and type) are overwritten with newer flags/ arguments. The interface from
within the kernel is lock_notify(). User processes can make a system call with
notify(). NOTIFY fully replaces the old notification mechanism.
The call works. Permission check, restriction of outstanding notifications
to be added. Low level code to make it work from within interrupt handlers
will be added as well.
list of handlers, callable by irqctl system call
. workaround for hanging keyboard bug after shutdown.. if key is pressed
during or after shutdown procedure, keyboard stops working. It looks like
irq 1 gets stuck high if no keyboard reading is done (e.g. because the
irq is masked or tty driver has exited). Workaround is to leave irqs
enabled until the last second, and call shutdown() immediately after the
last driver has stopped (tty task). This way the chance of an unserviced
interrupt occuring is negligible.
