I'm studying Operating Systems and, of course, Minix 3. Can someone tell me which file and line of code in Minix 3 are the entry points of: Kernel ...
I'm studying Operating Systems and, of course, Minix 3. Can someone tell me which file and line of code in Minix 3 are the entry points of: Kernel ...
error screenshot I just installed Minix and tried to use mined a shutdown function. I got the error 12. I tried to google it, but I couldn't find any ...
I have read Introduction to the Minix File System from Wikipedia. I don't understand this sentence, "but since the Minix fs uses unsigned shorts for b ...
So I want to write recursive syscall in c which gets all descendands from a process (kids, grandkids, ..). System which I'm using is Minix 3.2.1, but ...
I'm currently learning about operating system kernels and how they are built from the source code (I'm using Minix). I'm trying to figure out where t ...
I'm studying MINIX book version (3.1.0) source code and found MINIX 3 doesn't use the cpu's task switching function, instead it just performs a normal ...
I recently purchased this book to get a better understanding of how operating systems work. I am on the second chapter and I'm stuck on this problem a ...
For example in FreeBSD strcpy is defined in lib/libc/string/strcpy.c. Why in minix it is defined in lib/libc/string/Lint_strcpy.c, not in strcpy.c jus ...
I am trying to implement a system call in Minix and I'm having trouble understanding where I need to go. This is the system call I need to add which r ...
I am trying to make a new command in the src/bin folder as a test (called "tcom" for test command, not to be confused with "test" command). I already ...
As the title implies I am trying to open a text file in the same directory as of the program I'm running. Here is the code I am using: This prints ...
How to debug the MINIX kernel under the VirtualBox running on windows, ubuntu, or OSX? I am using MINIX 3.2.1 and Eclipse CPP. ...
I'm modifying a scheduler in Minix 3.1.8 and wondering what the system call sys_schedule() does in CPU. Could someone explain? sys_schedule.c com. ...
Conceptually, whats the difference in Minix between a System call and a Kernel call? I kind of understand this difference in an Operating System like ...
I once managed to return the function, and with that when I run the test it passed I Have this function on utils.c: This one is just for wrapping u ...
So I'm trying to create a new system call on PM server. My question is, how can I send some kind of message to function. in IPC server all I had to d ...
I am trying to modify cat command in MINIX 3.2.1, and I am having some problems with it. I want to add -H flag, so that when it is used, file name is ...
I am using Microsoft Azure Face to get the data from an image in an Android Application running in an android box (minix), when I reach the point in t ...
In kernel/ipc.h Tanenbaum defines the system call bits as: but then in kernel/table.c the system call bits are defined as: Why is everything bit ...
In kernel/proto.h, MINIX 3 defines two forward declarations struct proc and struct timer. However much of the type information within the parameters i ...