16 Jul
2016
16 Jul
'16
7:32 a.m.
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016, at 18:56, Warren Toomey wrote:
Unfortunately, while the kernel is nice, they
don't provide much of
a run-time environment, so it feels too much of a toy to use. I had the
idea of porting a small set of libraries and commands over to get it to
the point where it feels a bit like 7th Edition.
I've made a start by using the Minix 2.0 libraries and commands, see
https://github.com/DoctorWkt/xv6-minix2 and the NOTES file. I now realise
that bringing up a libc plus associated commands will involve a fair bit
of
work.
https://github.com/DoctorWkt/xv6-minix2/commit/f6159743fd9d7dd13a1a4c2285a1…
Wouldn't it be easier to simply change the xv6 stat structure itself,
and possibly the filesystem structure as well?