VFS no longer deals with inodes in public API, only with custodies and file
descriptions. Talk directly to the file system if you need to operate on a
inode. In most cases you actually want to go though VFS, to get proper
permission check and other niceties. For this to work, you have to provide a
custody, which describes *how* you have opened the inode, not just what the
inode is.
We're going to make use of it in the next commit. But the idea is we want to
know how this File (more specifically, InodeFile) was opened in order to decide
how chown()/chmod() should behave, in particular whether it should be allowed or
not. Note that many other File operations, such as read(), write(), and ioctl(),
already require the caller to pass a FileDescription.
You can now mmap a file as private and writable, and the changes you
make will only be visible to you.
This works because internally a MAP_PRIVATE region is backed by a
unique PrivateInodeVMObject instead of using the globally shared
SharedInodeVMObject like we always did before. :^)
Fixes#1045.
As suggested by Joshua, this commit adds the 2-clause BSD license as a
comment block to the top of every source file.
For the first pass, I've just added myself for simplicity. I encourage
everyone to add themselves as copyright holders of any file they've
added or modified in some significant way. If I've added myself in
error somewhere, feel free to replace it with the appropriate copyright
holder instead.
Going forward, all new source files should include a license header.
In order to ensure a specific owner and mode when the local socket
filesystem endpoint is instantiated, we need to be able to call
fchmod() and fchown() on a socket fd between socket() and bind().
This is because until we call bind(), there is no filesystem inode
for the socket yet.
This patch adds these I/O counters to each thread:
- (Inode) file read bytes
- (Inode) file write bytes
- Unix socket read bytes
- Unix socket write bytes
- IPv4 socket read bytes
- IPv4 socket write bytes
These are then exposed in /proc/all and seen in SystemMonitor.
After reading a bunch of POSIX specs, I've learned that a file descriptor
is the number that refers to a file description, not the description itself.
So this patch renames FileDescriptor to FileDescription, and Process now has
FileDescription* file_description(int fd).
