Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1 Audience
1.2 Features
1.3 Overview
1.4 History
1.5 GNU General Public License

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Preamble
How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

2. Bootstrap

2.1 Bootloader
2.2 Server Bootstrap

2.2.1 Invoking serverboot
2.2.2 Boot Scripts
2.2.3 Recursive Bootstrap
2.2.4 Invoking boot

2.3 Shutdown

3. Foundations

3.1 Threads Library
3.2 Ports Library

3.2.1 Buckets and Classes
3.2.2 Port Rights
3.2.3 Port Metadata
3.2.4 Port References
3.2.5 RPC Management

3.3 Integer Hash Library
3.4 Misc Library
3.5 Bug Address Library

4. Input and Output

4.1 Iohelp Library

4.1.1 I/O Users
4.1.2 Conch Management

4.2 Pager Library

4.2.1 Pager Management
4.2.2 Pager Callbacks

4.3 I/O Interface

4.3.1 I/O Object Ports
4.3.2 Simple Operations
4.3.3 Open Modes
4.3.4 Asynchronous I/O
4.3.5 Information Queries
4.3.6 Mapped Data

5. Files

5.1 Translators

5.1.1 Invoking settrans
5.1.2 Invoking showtrans
5.1.3 Invoking mount
5.1.4 Invoking fsysopts

5.2 Trivfs Library

5.2.1 Trivfs Startup
5.2.2 Trivfs Callbacks
5.2.3 Trivfs Options
5.2.4 Trivfs Ports

5.3 Fshelp Library

5.3.1 Passive Translator Linkage
5.3.2 Active Translator Linkage
5.3.3 Fshelp Locking
5.3.4 Fshelp Permissions
5.3.5 Fshelp Misc

5.4 File Interface

5.4.1 File Overview
5.4.2 Changing Status
5.4.3 Program Execution
5.4.4 File Locking
5.4.5 File Frobbing
5.4.6 Opening Files
5.4.7 Modifying Directories
5.4.8 Notifications
5.4.9 File Translators

5.5 Filesystem Interface

6. Special Files

6.1 fifo
6.2 ifsock
6.3 magic
6.4 null

7. Stores

7.1 storeinfo, storecat, storeread
7.2 storeio
7.3 Store Library

7.3.1 Store Arguments
7.3.2 Store Management
7.3.3 Store I/O
7.3.4 Store Classes

7.3.4.1 query store
7.3.4.2 typed_open store
7.3.4.3 device store
7.3.4.4 file store
7.3.4.5 task store
7.3.4.6 zero store
7.3.4.7 copy store
7.3.4.8 gunzip store
7.3.4.9 concat store
7.3.4.10 ileave store
7.3.4.11 mvol store
7.3.4.12 remap store

7.3.5 Store RPC Encoding

8. Stored Filesystems

8.1 Repairing Filesystems
8.2 Linux Extended 2 FS
8.3 BSD Unix FS
8.4 ISO-9660 CD-ROM FS
8.5 Diskfs Library

8.5.1 Diskfs Startup
8.5.2 Diskfs Arguments
8.5.3 Diskfs Globals
8.5.4 Diskfs Node Management
8.5.5 Diskfs Callbacks
8.5.6 Diskfs Options
8.5.7 Diskfs Internals

9. Twisted Filesystems

9.1 symlink, firmlink
9.2 hostmux, usermux
9.3 shadowfs

10. Distributed Filesystems

10.1 File Transfer Protocol

10.1.1 ftpcp, ftpdir
10.1.2 ftpfs
10.1.3 FTP Connection Library

10.2 Network File System

10.2.1 nfsd
10.2.2 nfs

11. Networking

11.1 pfinet
11.2 pflocal
11.3 libpipe
11.4 Socket Interface

12. Terminal Handling

12.1 term
12.2 term.defs

13. Running Programs

13.1 ps, w
13.2 libps
13.3 exec
13.4 proc
13.5 crash

14. Authentication

14.1 addauth, rmauth, setauth
14.2 su, sush, unsu
14.3 login, loginpr
14.4 auth
14.5 Auth Interface

14.5.1 Auth Protocol

Index