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The idle thread is now actually run when the system is idle because it truly goes idle. The idle thread is made power efficient by using the hlt instruction rather than a busy loop. The new futex(2) system call is used to implement fast user-space mutexes, condition variables, and semaphores. The same backend and design is used as kutexes for truly sleeping kernel mutexes and condition variables. The new exit_thread(2) flag EXIT_THREAD_FUTEX_WAKE wakes a futex. Sleeping on clocks in the kernel now uses timers for true sleep. The interrupt worker thread now truly sleeps when idle. Kernel threads are now named. This is a compatible ABI change. |
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The Sortix Operating System =========================== Sortix is a small self-hosting operating-system aiming to be a clean and modern POSIX implementation. It is a hobbyist operating system written from scratch with its own base system, including kernel and standard library, as well as ports of third party software. It has a straightforward installer and can be developed under itself. Releases come with the source code in /src, ready for tinkering. It has been in development since 2011 by a single developer and contributors. Though the system is stable and capable right now, it is still early in development, and a number of crucial features haven't been made yet. Releases are made yearly and future releases will add features such as networking, SMP, and USB that were skipped in favor of becoming self-hosting now. Documentation ------------- The system is documented as manual pages. Introductory system usage is covered in the user-guide(7) manual page. Links ----- For more information, please visit the official website: https://sortix.org/ Building Sortix --------------- Development of Sortix under itself is covered in development(7). Development from another operating system is covered in cross-development(7). You can view the cross-development(7) manual page with this command: man share/man/man7/cross-development.7 License ------- Copyright 2011-2016 Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen and contributors. Sortix is free software licensed under the ISC license as described in the LICENSE file. It also contains permissively licensed code from other projects.