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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. |
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| g_syscount.S | ||
| gen.sh | ||
| machcalls.sh | ||
| macros.internal.h | ||
| README.md | ||
| restorert.S | ||
| strace.greg.c | ||
| syscall.S | ||
| syscalls.sh | ||
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SYNOPSIS
System Five Import Libraries
OVERVIEW
Bell System Five is the umbrella term we use to describe Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Mac OS X which all have nearly-identical application binary interfaces that stood the test of time, having definitions nearly the same as those of AT&T back in the 1980's.
Cosmopolitan aims to help you build apps that can endure over the course of decades, just like these systems have: without needing to lift a finger for maintenance churn, broken builds, broken hearts.
The challenge to System V binary compatibility basically boils down to numbers. All these systems agree on what services are provided, but tend to grant them wildly different numbers.
We address this by putting all the numbers in a couple big shell scripts, ask the GNU Assembler to encode them into binaries using an efficient LEB128 encoding, unpacked by _init(), and ref'd via extern const. It gives us good debuggability, and any costs are gained back by fewer branches in wrapper functions.z