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Cristiano Giuffrida
cb176df60f New RS and new signal handling for system processes.
UPDATING INFO:
20100317:
        /usr/src/etc/system.conf updated to ignore default kernel calls: copy
        it (or merge it) to /etc/system.conf.
        The hello driver (/dev/hello) added to the distribution:
        # cd /usr/src/commands/scripts && make clean install
        # cd /dev && MAKEDEV hello

KERNEL CHANGES:
- Generic signal handling support. The kernel no longer assumes PM as a signal
manager for every process. The signal manager of a given process can now be
specified in its privilege slot. When a signal has to be delivered, the kernel
performs the lookup and forwards the signal to the appropriate signal manager.
PM is the default signal manager for user processes, RS is the default signal
manager for system processes. To enable ptrace()ing for system processes, it
is sufficient to change the default signal manager to PM. This will temporarily
disable crash recovery, though.
- sys_exit() is now split into sys_exit() (i.e. exit() for system processes,
which generates a self-termination signal), and sys_clear() (i.e. used by PM
to ask the kernel to clear a process slot when a process exits).
- Added a new kernel call (i.e. sys_update()) to swap two process slots and
implement live update.

PM CHANGES:
- Posix signal handling is no longer allowed for system processes. System
signals are split into two fixed categories: termination and non-termination
signals. When a non-termination signaled is processed, PM transforms the signal
into an IPC message and delivers the message to the system process. When a
termination signal is processed, PM terminates the process.
- PM no longer assumes itself as the signal manager for system processes. It now
makes sure that every system signal goes through the kernel before being
actually processes. The kernel will then dispatch the signal to the appropriate
signal manager which may or may not be PM.

SYSLIB CHANGES:
- Simplified SEF init and LU callbacks.
- Added additional predefined SEF callbacks to debug crash recovery and
live update.
- Fixed a temporary ack in the SEF init protocol. SEF init reply is now
completely synchronous.
- Added SEF signal event type to provide a uniform interface for system
processes to deal with signals. A sef_cb_signal_handler() callback is
available for system processes to handle every received signal. A
sef_cb_signal_manager() callback is used by signal managers to process
system signals on behalf of the kernel.
- Fixed a few bugs with memory mapping and DS.

VM CHANGES:
- Page faults and memory requests coming from the kernel are now implemented
using signals.
- Added a new VM call to swap two process slots and implement live update.
- The call is used by RS at update time and in turn invokes the kernel call
sys_update().

RS CHANGES:
- RS has been reworked with a better functional decomposition.
- Better kernel call masks. com.h now defines the set of very basic kernel calls
every system service is allowed to use. This makes system.conf simpler and
easier to maintain. In addition, this guarantees a higher level of isolation
for system libraries that use one or more kernel calls internally (e.g. printf).
- RS is the default signal manager for system processes. By default, RS
intercepts every signal delivered to every system process. This makes crash
recovery possible before bringing PM and friends in the loop.
- RS now supports fast rollback when something goes wrong while initializing
the new version during a live update.
- Live update is now implemented by keeping the two versions side-by-side and
swapping the process slots when the old version is ready to update.
- Crash recovery is now implemented by keeping the two versions side-by-side
and cleaning up the old version only when the recovery process is complete.

DS CHANGES:
- Fixed a bug when the process doing ds_publish() or ds_delete() is not known
by DS.
- Fixed the completely broken support for strings. String publishing is now
implemented in the system library and simply wraps publishing of memory ranges.
Ideally, we should adopt a similar approach for other data types as well.
- Test suite fixed.

DRIVER CHANGES:
- The hello driver has been added to the Minix distribution to demonstrate basic
live update and crash recovery functionalities.
- Other drivers have been adapted to conform the new SEF interface.
2010-03-17 01:15:29 +00:00
Arun Thomas
9944688d2b Convert man/ over to new make 2010-03-16 00:15:43 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
bef0e3eb63 - Add support for the ucontext system calls (getcontext, setcontext,
swapcontext, and makecontext).
- Fix VM to not erroneously think the stack segment and data segment have
  collided when a user-space thread invokes brk().
- Add test51 to test ucontext functionality.
- Add man pages for ucontext system calls.
2010-03-12 15:58:41 +00:00
Arun Thomas
2a8fabf4ad Include directory reorg and makefile updates.
-Convert the include directory over to using bsdmake
 syntax
-Update/add mkfiles
-Modify install(1) so that it can create symlinks
-Update makefiles to use new install(1) options
-Rename /usr/include/ibm to /usr/include/i386
-Create /usr/include/machine symlink to arch header files
-Move vm_i386.h to its new home in the /usr/include/i386
-Update source files to #include the header files at their
 new homes.
-Add new gnu-includes target for building GCC headers
2010-03-08 11:04:59 +00:00
Ben Gras
eedff09bfd top manpage update 2010-03-03 15:46:20 +00:00
Ben Gras
7c4cd0e6b0 - new pread(), fnmatch() calls
- split sprintf() and snprintf() to solve a linking problem when
   compiling an application
2010-02-25 17:08:08 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
e3bfaaa2d0 Remove executable bit on mkdep.1 2010-02-19 12:32:01 +00:00
Arun Thomas
b706112487 Incorporate bsdmake into buildsystem and reorganize libs 2010-02-16 14:41:33 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
d70e7ff3b6 Fixes in mkdep.1, suggested by Greg King 2010-02-05 13:07:08 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
7c9fe576a8 Throw out getpack, replace printenv with a link to env 2010-02-03 13:51:26 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
144de8a7b3 Add smallbunzip2 to bzip2 man-page 2010-02-02 15:26:12 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
c107dbe1d0 Man-pages on mkdep, cdprobe, loadramdisk and newroot; thanks to Antoine Leca 2010-02-02 15:10:00 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
310876dcec Kill processes which ignore signals thatshould not be ignored 2010-01-31 19:13:20 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
d8b8e10ba4 Add notrunc conversion for dd tool 2010-01-27 07:48:06 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
3e583f4c04 Add -p flag for install tool 2010-01-27 07:47:29 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
71fe2852f4 HGFS - VMware Shared Folders file system server 2010-01-25 23:18:02 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
58024f9eb0 Add character classes for tr 2010-01-25 18:14:54 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
3ec29ae85e Add dirname function 2010-01-25 18:12:28 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
a89d141e90 Add getopt_long library function 2010-01-25 18:11:21 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
769e5f373a man mount(1): dash escaping consistency 2010-01-22 23:24:02 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
ca9280e097 - Fix dangling symlink regression
- Make open(2) more POSIX compliant
- Add a test case for dangling symlinks and open() syscall with O_CREAT and
  O_EXCL on a symlink.
- Update open(2) man page to reflect change.
2010-01-21 09:32:15 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
a5a2073680 create the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo library functions and friends 2010-01-21 06:38:17 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
cc86693102 - Make packman unmount the packages cd if it was mounted.
- Manpages for packman and packit.
2010-01-13 15:52:55 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
b31119abf5 Mount updates:
- allow mounting with "none" block device
- allow unmounting by mountpoint
- make VFS aware of file system process labels
- allow m3_ca1 to use the full available message size
- use *printf in u/mount(1), as mount(2) uses it already
- fix reference leaks for some mount error cases in VFS
2010-01-12 23:08:50 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
2baf34f801 Update years in man-pages (thanks to Antoine Leca for pointing this out) 2010-01-09 08:18:26 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
f025e5f06b Implementations of readv and writev 2010-01-08 13:40:34 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
aec561acc5 Add scalbn family of functions 2010-01-08 07:27:54 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
17b10f1bf3 Add fabsf function 2010-01-08 07:27:11 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
aac4b7923f Add ENOTSUP error code 2010-01-07 09:53:31 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
8d97f0253f Fix bracket with different color in netconf(8) man-page 2010-01-06 08:31:11 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
33afb396f8 Man-page for netconf(8), contributed by Leith Brandeland 2010-01-06 08:24:06 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
c554a39725 Move man-pages for zoneinfo, replace with links 2010-01-06 08:00:39 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
bbff2115d6 Oops, forgot to svn add this 2010-01-06 07:49:54 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
a75c9fce4d Man-page for ping, contributed by Leith Brandeland 2010-01-06 07:36:12 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
ac9ab099c8 General cleanup:
- clean up kernel section of minix/com.h somewhat
- remove ALLOCMEM and VM_ALLOCMEM calls
- remove non-safecopy and minix-vmd support from Inet
- remove SYS_VIRVCOPY and SYS_PHYSVCOPY calls
- remove obsolete segment encoding in SYS_SAFECOPY*
- remove DEVCTL call, svrctl(FSDEVUNMAP), map_driverX
- remove declarations of unimplemented svrctl requests
- remove everything related to swapping to disk
- remove floppysetup.sh
- remove traces of rescue device
- update DESCRIBE.sh with new devices
- some other small changes
2010-01-05 19:39:27 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
0dcf5b7aa8 add ptrace(2) TO_NOEXEC flag 2010-01-05 09:30:28 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
7bbe4aaaa6 Add man entry for new errno code 2009-12-31 12:09:31 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
41f3075f99 Man-page name order fixes 2009-12-30 20:35:05 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
0bafee3d78 unbreak, deprivilege dumpcore(1) 2009-12-29 21:34:06 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
e423c86009 ptrace(2) modifications:
- add T_GETRANGE/T_SETRANGE to get/set ranges of values
- change EIO error code to EFAULT
- move common-I&D text-to-data translation to umap_local
2009-12-29 21:32:15 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
6dc5d42798 Floating point support functions 2009-12-24 20:22:41 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
d31ad285a0 typo 2009-12-16 12:17:02 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
6adadade32 Implementation of strto(u)ll, documentation and tests for strto(u)l(l) 2009-12-09 19:01:38 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
bd0933a19b Implementation of getrlimit and getdtablesize 2009-12-07 19:56:40 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
5427ab41c8 Add realpath function 2009-12-04 07:52:22 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
c6cce1823d Portability: POSIXize some of inet's error codes 2009-11-28 13:18:33 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
379e087d6b Create man pages for bigsh and dev2name 2009-10-27 15:34:22 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
0143cb2335 support for head -n (suggested by xorquewasp) 2009-10-10 22:36:46 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
cb6dbfca2c Add lspci command and SI_PCI_INFO getsysinfo call 2009-10-09 10:48:46 +00:00
Erik van der Kouwe
d9a34f96e7 Add nohup tool (approved by Ben) 2009-10-06 14:16:35 +00:00