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Andreas Kling
03a8357e84 Implement sending signals to blocked-in-kernel processes.
This is dirty but pretty cool! If we have a pending, unmasked signal for
a process that's blocked inside the kernel, we set up alternate stacks
for that process and unblock it to execute the signal handler.

A slightly different return trampoline is used here: since we need to
get back into the kernel, a dedicated syscall is used (sys$sigreturn.)

This restores the TSS contents of the process to the state it was in
while we were originally blocking in the kernel.

NOTE: There's currently only one "kernel resume TSS" so signal nesting
definitely won't work.
2018-11-07 21:19:47 +01:00
Andreas Kling
981a3ae4b3 Make VFS test environment build again. 2018-11-07 12:05:51 +01:00
Andreas Kling
83172e6a4b Rename FileHandle to FileDescriptor. 2018-11-07 11:37:54 +01:00
Renamed from VirtualFileSystem/FileHandle.cpp (Browse further)