- Implement openpty()
- Add `--assimilate` flag to APE bootloader
- Restore Linux vDSO clock_gettime() support
- Use `$(APE_NO_MODIFY_SELF)` on more programs
This change introduces a `-W /dev/pts/1` flag to redbean. What it does
is use the mincore() system call to create a dual-screen terminal
display that lets you troubleshoot the virtual address space. This is
useful since page faults are an important thing to consider when using a
forking web server. Now we have a colorful visualization of which pages
are going to fault and which ones are resident in memory.
The memory monitor, if enabled, spawns as a thread that just outputs
ANSI codes to the second terminal in a loop. In order to make this
happen using the new clone() polyfill, stdio is now thread safe.
This change also introduces some new demo pages to redbean. It also
polishes the demos we already have, to look a bit nicer and more
presentable for the upcoming release, with better explanations too.
- Get threads working on NetBSD
- Get threads working on OpenBSD
- Fix Emacs config for Emacs v28
- Improve --strace logging of sigset_t
- Improve --strace logging of struct stat
- Improve memory safety of DescribeThing functions
- Refactor auto stack allocation into LIBC_RUNTIME
- Introduce shell.com example which works on Windows
- Refactor __strace_thing into DescribeThing functions
- Document the CHECK macros and improve them in NDEBUG mode
- Rewrite MAP_STACK so it uses FreeBSD behavior across platforms
- Deprecate and discourage the use of MAP_GROWSDOWN (it's weird)
- Fix sigsuspend() on XNU
- Fix strsignal() on non-Linux
- Add unit tests for strsignal()
- Add unit tests for setitimer()
- Add unit tests for sigsuspend()
- Rewrite setitimer() for New Technology
- Rewrite nanosleep() for New Technology
- Polyfill SIGALRM on the New Technology
- select(0,0,0,0) on NT now calls pause()
- Remove some NTDLL calls that aren't needed
- Polyfill SA_NOCLDWAIT on the New Technology
- Polyfill SA_RESETHAND on the New Technology
- Polyfill sigprocmask() on the New Technology
- Polyfill SIGCHLD+SIG_IGN on the New Technology
- Polyfill SA_RESTART masking on the New Technology
- Deliver console signals from main thread on New Technology
- Document SA_RESTART behavior w/ @sarestartable / @norestart
- System call trace in MODE=dbg now prints inherited FDs and signal mask
Your Actually Portable Executables now contains a simple virtual memory
that works similarly to the Linux Kernel in the sense that it maps your
physical memory to negative addresses. This is needed to support mmap()
and malloc(). This functionality has zero code size impact. For example
the MODE=tiny LIFE.COM executable is still only 12KB in size.
The APE bootloader code has also been simplified to improve readibility
and further elevate the elegance by which we're able to support so many
platforms thereby enhancing verifiability so that we may engender trust
in this bootloading process.
- Remove XD bit in page tables
- Fix cylinder+head+sector arithmetic
- Implement fstat() for serial file descriptors on metal
Here's how to boot an Actually Portable Executable in QEMU:
make -j12 o//tool/viz/deathstar.com
qemu-system-x86_64 -serial stdio -fda o//tool/viz/deathstar.com
Here's a screenshot of DEATHSTAR.COM booted in QEMU:
https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/cosmo-metal-qemu.png
Thus metal support is in much better shape now, but still incomplete.
Only a few system calls have been polyfilled. To figure out which ones
your program needs, simply boot it in the blinkenlights emulator with a
breakpoint, and press CTRL-C to continue to the system call breakpoint.
If it doesn't break then you should be good. (Note: to emulate normally
you can press 'c' and use CTRL-T and ALT-T to tune the speed.)
m=tiny
make -j12 SILENT=0 MODE=$m \
o/$m/tool/build/blinkenlights.com \
o/$m/tool/viz/deathstar.com
o/$m/tool/build/blinkenlights.com \
-r -t -b systemfive.linux \
o/$m/tool/viz/deathstar.com
Thank @Theldus for the bug report that made this change possible.
Fixes#20 which explains this change further.
This change includes many bug fixes, for the NT polyfills, strings,
memory, boot, and math libraries which were discovered by adding more
tools for recreational programming, such as PC emulation. Lemon has also
been vendored because it works so well at parsing languages.
