This syscall ends up disabling interrupts while changing the time,
and the clock is a global resource anyway, so preventing threads in the
same process from running wouldn't solve anything.
The obsolete ttyname and ptsname syscalls are removed.
LibC doesn't rely on these anymore, and it helps simplifying the Kernel
in many places, so it's an overall an improvement.
In addition to that, /proc/PID/tty node is removed too as it is not
needed anymore by userspace to get the attached TTY of a process, as
/dev/tty (which is already a character device) represents that as well.
The project appears to build just fine without it, and the explicit use
of `LibC` causes it to conflict with the system-wide `fd_set.h` when
building inside of Serenity.
This function is an extended version of `chmod(2)` that lets one control
whether to dereference symlinks, and specify a file descriptor to a
directory that will be used as the base for relative paths.
This modifies sys$chown to allow specifying whether or not to follow
symlinks and in which directory.
This was then used to implement lchown and fchownat in LibC and LibCore.
Most other syscalls pass address arguments as `void*` instead of
`uintptr_t`, so let's do that here too. Besides improving consistency,
this commit makes `strace` correctly pretty-print these arguments in
hex.
Now that the userland has a compatiblity wrapper for select(), the
kernel doesn't need to implement this syscall natively. The poll()
interface been around since 1987, any code still using select()
should be slapped silly.
Note: the SerenityOS source tree mostly uses select() and not poll()
despite SerenityOS having support for poll() since early 2019...
This includes a new Thread::Blocker called SignalBlocker which blocks
until a signal of a matching type is pending. The current Blocker
implementation in the Kernel is very complicated, but cleaning it up is
a different yak for a different day.
Also, remove incomplete, superfluous check.
Incomplete, because only the byte at the provided address was checked;
this misses the last bytes of the "jerk page".
Superfluous, because it is already correctly checked by peek_user_data
(which calls copy_from_user).
The caller/tracer should not typically attempt to read non-userspace
addresses, we don't need to "hot-path" it either.
This allows userspace to trigger a full (FIXME) flush of a shared file
mapping to disk. We iterate over all the mapped pages in the VMObject
and write them out to the underlying inode, one by one. This is rather
naive, and there's lots of room for improvement.
Note that shared file mappings are currently not possible since mmap()
returns ENOTSUP for PROT_WRITE+MAP_SHARED. That restriction will be
removed in a subsequent commit. :^)
The OpenFileDescription class already offers the necessary functionlity,
so implementing this was only a matter of following the structure for
`read` while handling the additional `offset` argument.
This change removes the halt and reboot syscalls, and create a new
mechanism to change the power state of the machine.
Instead of how power state was changed until now, put a SysFS node as
writable only for the superuser, that with a defined value, can result
in either reboot or poweroff.
In the future, a power group can be assigned to this node (which will be
the GroupID responsible for power management).
This opens an opportunity to permit to shutdown/reboot without superuser
permissions, so in the future, a userspace daemon can take control of
this node to perform power management operations without superuser
permissions, if we enforce different UserID/GroupID on that node.
These interfaces are broken for about 9 months, maybe longer than that.
At this point, this is just a dead code nobody tests or tries to use, so
let's remove it instead of keeping a stale code just for the sake of
keeping it and hoping someone will fix it.
To better justify this, I read that OpenBSD removed loadable kernel
modules in 5.7 release (2014), mainly for the same reason we do -
nobody used it so they had no good reason to maintain it.
Still, OpenBSD had LKMs being effectively working, which is not the
current state in our project for a long time.
An arguably better approach to minimize the Kernel image size is to
allow dropping drivers and features while compiling a new image.
