Finally, resolve_path: a function which takes a path (/etc/fstab for example), and walks the VFS:
In this case, it would start with the root FS node, and ask it: "do you have a directory/file named etc?"
The node could say 'yes', 'no', or 'i'm not a directory, I'm a file' (should not be the case for the VFS root, but for the other ones it could be)
If it says yes, we continue and ask the child if it has a file named fstab. Etc...
%m as a format specifier is a nonstandard glibc extension, but I like it so I'm implementing it.
What it does is print the value of strerror(errno), without consuming any arguments to printf().
The exit() libc function already accepted an integer, but didn't pass it on to the kernel since we had no mechanism for it to do that.
Now, the kernel stores a task's exit status to display it later (and in the future, return it to userspace via wait()/waitpid())
Since we already extract the symbols into a separate file which the kernel then uses for backtraces, this only brings us a smaller kernel, with no downsides :)
We don't have files :) (yet)
But if someone wants to fprintf(stderr), then fine. Do it. Except it won't be any different from fprintf(stdout) or printf().
Kernel: Add an errno.h header with definitions for each header,
and return those, negated, from syscalls when there is an error.
mmap() returns an invalid address with errno encoded, instead of
returning a negated errno; this address is encoded as ffffffffffffffEE
where EE is errno in hex.
libc: make syscall() return -1 and set errno on error, instead of
returning the raw return value of the system call. Also, add mmap()
and munmap() wrappers in sys/mman.h :).
userspace: make the memeater program show the value of errno
when allocating memory fails.
Things to improve: add perror() and strerror() to make the errno
experience even better! >.<
This struct allows us to keep track of what memory is used by the loaded executable. For some reason, freeing this memory when the task exits triggers a kernel page fault, so I'm not doing that right now.
