This library provides new abstractions for the upper (VFS) side of
file system services, and should be used for all file system service
implementations from now on. It provides the following functionality:
- a function call table abstraction, hiding the details of the
VFS-FS protocol with simple parameters;
- a (currently limited) number of per-function steps required for
all file system implementations, such as copying in and out path
names and result buffers;
- a default implementation for multicomponent path lookups, such
that the file system merely has to implement resolution of single
components at a time;
- an abstraction for copying data from and to the file system, which
allows transparent intraprocess copying as required for the lookup
implementation;
- a set of functions to simplify getdents implementations.
The message loop provided by the library is currently for use by
single-threaded file system implementations only. Multithreaded file
system services may use the more low-level message processing
functionality.
Protocol-level optimizations such as including names in protocol
messages may be hidden entirely in this library. In addition, in the
future, the lookup implementation may be replaced by a single-
component lookup VFS/FS protocol request as part of a VFS name cache
implementation; this, too, can be hidden entirely in this library.
Change-Id: Ib34f0d0e021dfa3426ce8826efcf3eaa94d3ef3e
Known limitations:
- comment for now testisofs, as iso9660fs is known to be broken.
Benefits:
- near 3x speed improvement on C++ code compilation, bringing down
make build to from 44min down to 21min.
- Allows for X applications to work properly, which should be available
in near-term future through pkgsrc for 3.3.0.
Change-Id: I8f4179a7ea925ed381642add32cfd8c5822217e4
. get rid of includes in libcompat_minix:
. move configfile.h to minix/include/
. all others are unneeded as they point to other files
. merge the .c files with libc
Change-Id: I5e840c66fb9bc484f377926aa9d66473bbd16259
There are missing field assignements, and/or messsages being re-used
without re-initializations, which allows for fields to be implicitly
forwarded.
This prevents me from creating per request message types, as I can't
spend currently any more time debugging this issue.
This library is built just so that something is present in
/usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1. This is needed for dynamically programs built
with gcc, which might reference that library at runtime (i.e. all pkgsrc
packages). The necessary symbols are in libc however, so when built on a
clang-only system, so an empty library is a working stopgap.
There was an off-by-one in the old MINIX-specific implementation,
which caused ttyname(3) to fail at random. Since we now have a working
devname(3), there is no need for MINIX-specific code anymore here.
Change-Id: I27d8b6c4f66c84f383156ed494b740d071af02a7
