a chance in phobos of handling it. This makes it possible to do a
kernel mount of most file systems with the block device backed by
a pud userspace server.
- i'm too young to compile
- hey, no tty rough
- hurd me plenty
=> abstraction-violence
- nightmare!
devmajor_t/devminor_t, as proposed on tech-kern.
This avoids 64-bit arithmetics and 64-bit printf formats in parts
of the kernel where it is not really useful, and helps clarity.
is a very rough cut supporting only open/close/read/write for char
devices for the time being. It also takes some extra liberties in
error value processing wrt. to the request-response protocol, but
that will be fixed later. On the bright side, I haven't managed
to crash my test kernel in several hours with this anymore, so it
can be considered extra-stable ... All in all this is remarkably
similar to puffs from multiple angles (well, actually, big surprise
there) and these two will share more and more code in the future.
The hardest part, coming up with the name, was done by agc. I'm
not exactly sure what "pud" is supposed to stand for, but if my
British is anything close to par, I understand that "pud" over
there can stand for just about anything, so it's a safe bet.
mrg