This change makes all the standard library and kernel headers use header
guards with a consistent scheme within the reserved namespace to avoid
conflicts with non-standard-library-implementation code.
This change imports the ports collection from the former porttix and srctix
repositories and converts them to port(5) files with metadata pointing to
the upstream release tarballs with patches checked into this repository.
Ports are now developed and versioned along with the operating system and
are automatically built per the PACKAGES environment variable. The patches
are licensed under the same license as the relevant ports.
Tix has gained support for the new port(5) format. tix-port(8) is the new
high level ports build even point that handles downloading pstream releases
into the new mirror cache directory, applying the patches, building the port
with the lower-level tix-build(8), and finally installing the binary
package. The new tix-vars(8) program parses port(5) files and the new
tix-rmdiff(8) program produces input for tix-rmpatch(8).
The old doc/ directory is discontinued in favor of manual pages documenting
the new ports system.
The obsolete porttix-create(8) and srctix-create(8) programs are removed.
Previously, sys_dup() would do dtable->Get() on the passed in-file
descriptor and then pass the result directly to dtable->Allocate(). If
the file descriptor is not valid, dtable->Get() returns a NULL reference
and sets errno to mark the error. Since sys_dup() did not check the
return value of dtable->Get() and dtable->Allocate() does not check
whether the passed in Ref<Descriptor> is a NULL reference, dup(2) with
invalid file descriptor would succesfully allocate a new file descriptor
with garbage contents.
This commit changes sys_dup() to use a variant of dtable->Allocate()
that takes in a file descriptor as an integer and properly validates it
before use.
The .init section for global constructors in the kernel is unused at the
moment as the _init function is never invoked, but its existence means
it got linked at 128 MiB on i686. This address isn't mapped by the
kernel and the bootloader requires the machine to have that much
physical memory. Unfortunately that meant the i686 build didn't work on
machines with less than 129 MiB of memory.
Previously Sortix would initialize SSE unconditionally as part of the
boot process. Since earlier i686 CPUs like Pentium 2 did not include
SSE, Sortix would not run on them. With this SSE is only enabled for
CPUs that include it, which should theoretically allow Sortix to boot on
all i686 CPUs. Additionally, this removes -msse -msse2 compiler flags
from trianglix/Makefile.
This change refactors the Unix socket / pipe backend to have a ring buffer
containing segments, where each segment has an optional leading ancillary
buffer containing control messages followed by a normal data buffer.
The SCM_RIGHTS control message has been implemented which transfers file
descriptors to the receiving process. File descriptors are reference counted
and cycles are prevented using the following restrictions:
1) Unix sockets cannot be sent on themselves (on either end).
2) Unix sockets themselves being sent cannot be sent on.
3) Unix sockets cannot send a Unix socket being sent on.
This is a compatible ABI change.