We now make three VirtualConsoles at boot: tty0, tty1, and tty2.
We launch an instance of /bin/sh in each one.
You switch between them with Alt+1/2/3
How very very cool :^)
The SpinLock was all backwards and didn't actually work. Fixing it exposed
how wrong most of the locking here is.
I need to come up with a better granularity here.
- sys$readlink + readlink()
- Add a /proc/PID/exe symlink to the process's executable.
- Print symlink contents in ls output.
- Some work on plumbing options into VFS::open().
This is pretty inefficient for ext2fs. We walk the entire block group
containing the inode, searching through every directory for an entry
referencing this inode.
It might be a good idea to cache this information somehow. I'm not sure
how often we'll be searching for it.
Obviously there are multiple caching layers missing in the file system.
I added a dead-simple malloc that only allows allocations < 4096 bytes.
It just forwards the request to mmap() every time.
I also added simplified versions of opendir() and readdir().
Add a separate lock to protect the VFS. I think this might be a good idea.
I'm not sure it's a good approach though. I'll fiddle with it as I go along.
It's really fun to figure out all these things on my own.
- More work on funneling console output through Console.
- init() now breaks off into a separate task ASAP.
- ..this leaves the "colonel" task as a simple hlt idle loop.
- Mask all IRQs on startup (except IRQ2 for slave passthru)
- Fix underallocation bug in Task::allocateRegion().
- Remember how many times each Task has been scheduled.
The panel and scheduling banner are disabled until I get things
working nicely in the (brave) new Console world.
