I originally thought I would do this inside WindowServer, but let's try to
make it as a standalone app that communicates with WindowServer instead.
That will allow us to use LibGUI. :^)
This is useful for static locals that never need to be destroyed:
Thing& Thing::the()
{
static Eternal<Thing> the;
return the;
}
The object will be allocated in data segment memory and will never have
its destructor invoked.
Choosing adapter for transmit is done by adapter_for_route_to(IPv4Address).
This is just hard-coded logic right now but can be expanded to support a
proper routing table.
Also start moving kernel networking code into Kernel/Net/.
The old bootloader was hilariously complicated, requiring a floppy disk with
the kernel on it, and a hard drive with the file system. This patch removes
the floppy disk from the equation and replaces it with a multiboot header.
This means the kernel can now be booted with qemu-system-i386 -kernel kernel
We can't have multiple threads in the same process running in the kernel
at the same time, so let's have a per-process lock that threads have to
acquire on syscall entry/exit (and yield while blocked.)
Cooperate with the compiler to generate and execute the _init_array list
of constructor functions on userspace program statup. This took two days
to get working, my goodness. :^)
This currently only works for "normal" processes created by fork().
It does not work for create_user_process() processes spawned by the
kernel, as those are a bit special during construction.
It's basically a userspace port of the kernel's Lock class.
Added gettid() and donate() syscalls to support the timeslice donation
feature we already enjoyed in the kernel.
This introduces a tiny amount of timer drift which I will have to fix
somehow eventually, but it's a huge improvement in timing consistency
as we no longer suddenly jump from e.g 10:45:49.123 to 10:45:50.000.
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. :^)
