David van Moolenbroek
f197bcb435
Allow servers to run with fewer privileges:
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- allow non-root processes to get their own endpoint
- make alloc_contig() call sys_umap() only when requested
2009-12-02 10:06:58 +00:00
Ben Gras
a0d8cc0765
- No maximum block size any more.
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- If allocation of a new buffer fails, use an already-allocated
unused buffer if available (low memory conditions)
- Allocate buffers dynamically, so memory isn't wasted on wrong-sized
buffers.
- No more _MAX_BLOCK_SIZE.
2009-09-21 14:47:51 +00:00
Ben Gras
51fdce1d36
minor fixes
2008-11-19 14:10:33 +00:00
Ben Gras
c078ec0331
Basic VM and other minor improvements.
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Not complete, probably not fully debugged or optimized.
2008-11-19 12:26:10 +00:00
Ben Gras
8ea438ae93
Retired DEV_{READ,WRITE,GATHER,SCATTER,IOCTL} (safe versions *_S are to
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be used and drivers should never receieve these 'unsafe' variants
any more).
2007-02-07 16:22:19 +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
