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Author SHA1 Message Date
Thomas Veerman
13ef7f1f38 Prepare VFS to support back calls from PFS. For security reasons and to support
file descriptor passing, PFS does some back calls to VFS. For example, to
verify the validity of a path provided by a process and to tell VFS it must
copy file descriptors from one process to another.
2010-08-30 13:44:07 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
34a2864e27 Fix a few compile time warnings 2010-07-02 12:41:19 +00:00
Arun Thomas
1bf6d23f34 Make exec() use entry point in a.out header 2010-06-10 14:59:10 +00:00
Arun Thomas
f0a158d8c1 More cleanup to remove MM and FS references 2010-06-10 14:04:46 +00:00
Arun Thomas
4c10a31440 Remove legacy MM, FS, and FS_PROC_NR macros 2010-06-08 13:58:01 +00:00
Tomas Hruby
6e25ad8b0a Use of all NIL_* defines converted to NULL 2010-05-10 13:26:00 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
86a23c1fbd Remove U16_t and most other similar types. Rewrite functions to ansi-style
declaration if necessary.
2010-04-21 11:05:22 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
bc314bda91 Remove the types Dev_t, _mnx_Gui, _mnx_Uid, and similar.
Use ANSI-style function declarations where necessary.
2010-04-13 10:58:41 +00:00
Cristiano Giuffrida
48c6bb79f4 Driver refactory for live update and crash recovery.
SYSLIB CHANGES:
- DS calls to publish / retrieve labels consider endpoints instead of u32_t.

VFS CHANGES:
- mapdriver() only adds an entry in the dmap table in VFS.
- dev_up() is only executed upon reception of a driver up event.

INET CHANGES:
- INET no longer searches for existing drivers instances at startup.
- A newtwork driver is (re)initialized upon reception of a driver up event.
- Networking startup is now race-free by design. No need to waste 5 seconds
at startup any more.

DRIVER CHANGES:
- Every driver publishes driver up events when starting for the first time or
in case of restart when recovery actions must be taken in the upper layers.
- Driver up events are published by drivers through DS. 
- For regular drivers, VFS is normally the only subscriber, but not necessarily.
For instance, when the filter driver is in use, it must subscribe to driver
up events to initiate recovery.
- For network drivers, inet is the only subscriber for now.
- Every VFS driver is statically linked with libdriver, every network driver
is statically linked with libnetdriver.

DRIVER LIBRARIES CHANGES:
- Libdriver is extended to provide generic receive() and ds_publish() interfaces
for VFS drivers.
- driver_receive() is a wrapper for sef_receive() also used in driver_task()
to discard spurious messages that were meant to be delivered to a previous
version of the driver.
- driver_receive_mq() is the same as driver_receive() but integrates support
for queued messages.
- driver_announce() publishes a driver up event for VFS drivers and marks
the driver as initialized and expecting a DEV_OPEN message.
- Libnetdriver is introduced to provide similar receive() and ds_publish()
interfaces for network drivers (netdriver_announce() and netdriver_receive()).
- Network drivers all support live update with no state transfer now.

KERNEL CHANGES:
- Added kernel call statectl for state management. Used by driver_announce() to
unblock eventual callers sendrecing to the driver.
2010-04-08 13:41:35 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
958b25be50 - Introduce support for sticky bit.
- Revise VFS-FS protocol and update VFS/MFS/ISOFS accordingly.
- Clean up MFS by removing old, dead code (backwards compatibility is broken by
  the new VFS-FS protocol, anyway) and rewrite other parts. Also, make sure all
  functions have proper banners and prototypes.
- VFS should always provide a (syntactically) valid path to the FS; no need for
  the FS to do sanity checks when leaving/entering mount points.
- Fix several bugs in MFS:
  - Several path lookup bugs in MFS.
  - A link can be too big for the path buffer.
  - A mountpoint can become inaccessible when the creation of a new inode
    fails, because the inode already exists and is a mountpoint.
- Introduce support for supplemental groups.
- Add test 46 to test supplemental group functionality (and removed obsolete
  suppl. tests from test 2).
- Clean up VFS (not everything is done yet).
- ISOFS now opens device read-only. This makes the -r flag in the mount command
  unnecessary (but will still report to be mounted read-write).
- Introduce PipeFS. PipeFS is a new FS that handles all anonymous and
  named pipes. However, named pipes still reside on the (M)FS, as they are part
  of the file system on disk. To make this work VFS now has a concept of
  'mapped' inodes, which causes read, write, truncate and stat requests to be
  redirected to the mapped FS, and all other requests to the original FS.
2009-12-20 20:27:14 +00:00
Ben Gras
8d9aa1fe4f throw out exec debugging message. 2009-09-30 08:36:13 +00:00
Ben Gras
f5459e38db - some exec debugging prints when errors happen
- lookup mounted_on check to avoid NULL dereference
 - some errors in exec() shouldn't be fatal
2009-09-21 14:49:26 +00:00
Ben Gras
c078ec0331 Basic VM and other minor improvements.
Not complete, probably not fully debugged or optimized.
2008-11-19 12:26:10 +00:00
Philip Homburg
f46319037b New VFS interface 2007-08-07 12:52:47 +00:00
Ben Gras
dc67b37a10 more removing of warning and debug messages. 2007-04-13 14:00:31 +00:00
Philip Homburg
9092146be7 VFS cleanup (mostly open). 2007-01-05 16:36:55 +00:00
Ben Gras
da42185e1c Removed verbose statements from vfs and mfs 2006-12-22 11:54:42 +00:00
Philip Homburg
bafc45a309 First cut at 64-bit file offsets in block devices for mkfs/fsck. 2006-11-27 14:21:43 +00:00
Ben Gras
fa0ba56bc9 Merge of VFS by Balasz Gerofi with Minix trunk. 2006-10-25 13:40:36 +00:00
Renamed from servers/fs/exec.c (Browse further)