if the boot monitor parameter is set. it also sets a boot monitor
parameter (by talking to the PM) so userland knows it.
. ramdisk copy code made slightly smarter
. various select() prettifications (work in progress)
and the new log driver if enabled.
new usyslogd is started from /usr/etc/rc. New device created by
MAKEDEV.sh. /var/log created by etc/mtree/minix.tree (on root for
now). Made select() slightly more generic, with less code duplication.
Made /usr/include belong to bin in mtree.
Fixed compiler warning in fs/pipe.c.
Added mdb (minix debugger) manual page.
Added ethernet config function in setup script.
syncing, for instance) if blocks are unwritable. This could happen if:
. write goes beyond device boundary to a block device
. write is done for a complete block or more; thus the
block is not retrieved first (at which point it would be noticed
it doesn't exist), but the buffer is simply allocated
. at write time, the device i/o doesn't succeed, but rw_scattered
doesn't understand this and loops forever trying to get the block
written.
Currently, if no blocks can be written, the loop aborts, leaving all
buffers intact but potentially dirty. When invalidate() is called on the
device, the buffers will disappear (even if dirty). Same story for if
the buffer is removed due to rmed from lru chain. There's not much we
can do about this, however - we can't keep these blocks around, forever
occupying a buffer in the buffer cache.
The second part of the solution is not to let unwritable buffers be
created in the first place. How to do this, however, without doing a
wasteful read first?
It looks like this code was in 2.0.4 too.
Added interface to select() for pipes (also named pipes), and select()
stubs for regular files.
Added timer library in FS that select() is the first customer of.
This is unfinished, but committed anyway to get a new release out to
Al and testers.
need /tmp any more since 16MB root device; increase to 3.0.5 to make new
CD with working FXP driver. (not tagged 3.0.5 yet as at driver bios-copy
workaround hasn't been done.)
* 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.
names. All system processes can now either use panic() or report() from
libutils, or redefine their own function. Assertions are done via the standard
<assert.h> functionality.
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.
