The scheduler now operates on threads, rather than on processes.
Each process has a main thread, and can have any number of additional
threads. The process exits when the main thread exits.
This patch doesn't actually spawn any additional threads, it merely
does all the plumbing needed to make it possible. :^)
We now talk to the lookup server over a local socket and it does the lookup
on our behalf. Including some retry logic, which is nice, because it seems
like DNS requests disappear in the ether pretty damn often where I am.
This is a monster patch that required changing a whole bunch of things.
There are performance and stability issues all over the place, but it works.
Pretty cool, I have to admit :^)
Currently you can only mmap the entire framebuffer.
Using this when starting up the WindowServer gets us yet another step
closer towards it moving into userspace. :^)
Let GButton have an optional icon (GraphicsBitmap) that gets rendered in the
middle of the button if present.
Also add GraphicsBitmap::load_from_file() which allows mmap'ed RGBA32 files.
I wrote a little program to take "raw" files from GIMP and swizzle them into
the correct byte order.
For now, the WindowServer process will run with high priority,
while the Finalizer process will run with low priority.
Everyone else gets to be "normal".
At the moment, priority simply determines the size of your time slices.
Instead of processes themselves getting scheduled to finish dying,
let's have a Finalizer process that wakes up whenever someone is dying.
This way we can do all kinds of lock-taking in process cleanup without
risking reentering the scheduler.
Instead of cowboy-calling the VESA BIOS in the bootloader, find the emulator
VGA adapter by scanning the PCI bus. Then set up the desired video mode by
sending device commands.
Now the filesystem is generated on-the-fly instead of manually adding and
removing inodes as processes spawn and die.
The code is convoluted and bloated as I wrote it while sleepless. However,
it's still vastly better than the old ProcFS, so I'm committing it.
I also added /proc/PID/fd/N symlinks for each of a process's open fd's.
This required a fair bit of plumbing. The CharacterDevice::close() virtual
will now be closed by ~FileDescriptor(), allowing device implementations to
do custom cleanup at that point.
One big problem remains: if the master PTY is closed before the slave PTY,
we go into crashy land.
You can now open as many PTY pairs as you like. Well, it's actually capped
at 8 for now, but it's just a constant and trivial to change.
Unregistering a PTY pair is untested because I didn't want to start
mucking with that in Terminal right now.
The system can finally idle without burning CPU. :^)
There are some issues with scheduling making the mouse cursor sloppy
and unresponsive that need to be dealt with.
When you open /dev/ptmx, you get a file descriptor pointing to one of the
available MasterPTY's. If none are available, you get an EBUSY.
This makes it possible to open multiple (up to 4) Terminals. :^)
To support this, I also added a CharacterDevice::open() that gets control
when VFS is opening a CharacterDevice. This is useful when we want to return
a custom FileDescriptor like we do here.
