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Brian Gianforcaro 70f3fa2dd2 Kernel: Set new process name in do_exec before waiting for the tracer
While investigating why gdb is failing when it calls `PT_CONTINUE`
against Serenity I noticed that the names of the programs in the
System Monitor didn't make sense. They were seemingly stale.

After inspecting the kernel code, it became apparent that the sequence
occurs as follows:

    1. Debugger calls `fork()`
    2. The forked child calls `PT_TRACE_ME`
    3. The `PT_TRACE_ME` instructs the forked process to block in the
       kernel waiting for a signal from the tracer on the next call
       to `execve(..)`.
    4. Debugger waits for forked child to spawn and stop, and then it
       calls `PT_ATTACH` followed by `PT_CONTINUE` on the child.
    5. Currently the `PT_CONTINUE` fails because of some other yet to
       be found bug.
    6. The process name is set immediately AFTER we are woken up by
       the `PT_CONTINUE` which never happens in the case I'm debugging.

This chain of events leaves the process suspended, with the name  of
the original (forked) process instead of the name we inherit from
the `execve(..)` call.

To avoid such confusion in the future, we set the new name before we
block waiting for the tracer.
2022-02-19 18:04:32 -08:00
.github CI: Disable compiletime header check 2022-02-16 23:19:50 +02:00
AK AK: Add fast path in String::trim() and String::trim_whitespace() 2022-02-19 14:45:59 +01:00
Base LibWeb: Implement @supports selector(.foo) 2022-02-19 19:33:54 +01:00
Documentation Documentation: Add texinfo as a dependency for Fedora 2022-02-19 18:27:21 +00:00
Kernel Kernel: Set new process name in do_exec before waiting for the tracer 2022-02-19 18:04:32 -08:00
Meta LibWeb: Add AbortSignal as a wrappable type 2022-02-20 02:03:24 +01:00
Ports Ports: Enable OpenSSL support for CMake 2022-02-17 21:25:41 -08:00
Tests LibC: Do not write value when scanf assignment value is suppressed 2022-02-20 00:13:08 +03:30
Toolchain Toolchain: Set CMAKE_NM for Clang and GNU toolchain files 2022-02-19 21:27:46 +01:00
Userland LibWeb: Add support for the options variant of {add,remove}EventListener 2022-02-20 02:03:24 +01:00
.clang-format Meta: Update .clang-format to not indent nested namespaces 2020-03-14 10:10:21 +01:00
.clang-tidy Meta: Disable readability-use-anyofallof clang-tidy check 2022-01-09 23:29:57 -08:00
.gitattributes Repository: Protect port patches from CRLF/LF normalization 2022-01-12 01:08:38 +01:00
.gitignore man.serenityos.org: Simplify local builds 2021-10-22 19:49:28 +03:00
.mailmap Meta: Fix my .mailmap entry by adding the name 2022-01-25 23:26:14 +00:00
.pre-commit-config.yaml Meta: Add a post-commit commit message linter hook 2021-05-02 16:28:01 +02:00
.prettierignore CI: Bump prettier to latest version (2.4.1) 2021-11-21 01:18:23 +00:00
.prettierrc Meta: Move prettier config files to the root of the repository 2020-08-24 18:21:33 +02:00
azure-pipelines.yml CI: Disallow test failures on macOS Lagom :^) 2022-01-14 22:39:06 +01:00
CMakeLists.txt Meta: Use correct variable for checking if the mold linker is used 2022-02-19 14:21:52 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Meta: Add Tim Flynn to list of project maintainers :^) 2022-02-11 22:24:10 +01:00
LICENSE Meta: Update year range in LICENSE :^) 2022-01-02 18:08:02 +01:00
README.md Meta: Add Kenneth Myhra to the contributors list :^) 2022-02-04 00:13:43 +01:00

SerenityOS

Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers.

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About

SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems.

Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-2000s *nix. This is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like.

You can watch videos of the system being developed on YouTube:

Screenshot

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Kernel features

  • x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit) kernel with pre-emptive multi-threading
  • Hardware protections (SMEP, SMAP, UMIP, NX, WP, TSD, ...)
  • IPv4 stack with ARP, TCP, UDP and ICMP protocols
  • ext2 filesystem
  • POSIX signals
  • Purgeable memory
  • /proc filesystem
  • Pseudoterminals (with /dev/pts filesystem)
  • Filesystem notifications
  • CPU and memory profiling
  • SoundBlaster 16 driver
  • VMWare/QEMU mouse integration

System services

  • Launch/session daemon (SystemServer)
  • Compositing window server (WindowServer)
  • Text console manager (TTYServer)
  • DNS client (LookupServer)
  • Network protocols server (RequestServer and WebSocket)
  • Software-mixing sound daemon (AudioServer)
  • Desktop notifications (NotificationServer)
  • HTTP server (WebServer)
  • Telnet server (TelnetServer)
  • DHCP client (DHCPClient)

Libraries

  • C++ templates and containers (AK)
  • Event loop and utilities (LibCore)
  • 2D graphics library (LibGfx)
  • OpenGL 1.x compatible library (LibGL)
  • GUI toolkit (LibGUI)
  • Cross-process communication library (LibIPC)
  • HTML/CSS engine (LibWeb)
  • JavaScript engine (LibJS)
  • Markdown (LibMarkdown)
  • Audio (LibAudio)
  • Digital Signal Processing/Synthesizer Chains (LibDSP)
  • PCI database (LibPCIDB)
  • Terminal emulation (LibVT)
  • Out-of-process network protocol I/O (LibProtocol)
  • Mathematical functions (LibM)
  • ELF file handling (LibELF)
  • POSIX threading (LibPthread)
  • Higher-level threading (LibThreading)
  • Transport Layer Security (LibTLS)
  • HTTP and HTTPS (LibHTTP)
  • IMAP (LibIMAP)

Userland features

  • Unix-like libc and userland
  • Shell with pipes and I/O redirection
  • On-line help system (both terminal and GUI variants)
  • Web browser (Browser)
  • C++ IDE (HackStudio)
  • Desktop synthesizer (Piano)
  • E-mail client (Mail)
  • Various desktop apps & games
  • Color themes

How do I read the documentation?

Man pages are available online at man.serenityos.org. These pages are generated from the Markdown source files in Base/usr/share/man and updated automatically.

When running SerenityOS you can use man for the terminal interface, or help for the GUI.

How do I build and run this?

See the SerenityOS build instructions

Before opening an issue

Please see the issue policy.

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

Get in touch

Join our Discord server: SerenityOS Discord

Author

Contributors

(And many more!) The people listed above have landed more than 100 commits in the project. :^)

License

SerenityOS is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.