That function is meant more for user programs, and should still be rarely used, since it's not portable.
Instead, we already know the number of arguments. We just call __lc_fast_syscallN, which also sets errno.
This function is a Luna alternative to fork() and exec().
Why? Simply because I can't figure out for the life of me how to implement a working fork().
So meanwhile, we have spawn() as a replacement. exec() still exists, though.
That's why we now have a VFS and a /dev pseudo-filesystem. To provide that kind of things.
Remember, everything is a file!!
The new way to ask the kernel for random numbers is to read from /dev/random.
exit() now calls registered handlers before calling _exit().
And initialize_libc() can now register a handler to close stdout and stderr on program termination!! :)
read() and close() are in unistd.h, but open() in fnctl.h.
I thought only the definitions for O_SOMETHING were in fnctl.h, but it is as it is.
Don't know why, but let's not anger the Unix gods.
The FILE* C API is pending as well.
Kernel: Implement a descriptor struct which stores the opened node and read offset, and give each task 8 of those.
Implement three syscalls: sys_read, sys_open and sys_close (sys_write still writes to the console instead of using a fd, for now)
Implement three new errors: ENOENT, EBADF and EMFILE.
libc: Implement the new errors, and the new syscalls in syscall().
Also fix _RETURN_WITH_ERRNO() to set errno correctly, which was making strerror() return null, thus crashing perror().
userspace: make init demonstrate the new file API.
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())
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! >.<
