This is my fork of the Xv6 operating system for studying operating systems. You
can view the original README at README.orig. The projects homepage is here:
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/xv6.html
Feel free to pull/copy any code from this repository. All source is licensed under the MIT open source license. Please keep in my mind that I'm not a professional kernel developer and am using this to learn more about hardware and operating systems. As such, I'm not making any guarantees about the correctness/design of the code.
- Source tree has been reorganized in the following manner:
- Kernel source is in
sys - User space libraries are in
lib - User space programs are in
bin - All headers (kernel and user space) are located in
include - Documentation/handbook generation logic has been removed from the respository
- Kernel source is in
- CPU scheduler will halt the cpu(s) when idle
- Adds the following system calls:
dup2: This mimics the functionality of Posix dup2
- Lazily allocates pages on page faults