OREAD and OWRITE are used as array indexes assuming that OREAD was zero
and OWRITE was one. Thus each related allocation reserved just 2 slot and
even Ep struct in usb.h reserved just 2 int for toggles.
Since OREAD is now 1 and OWRITE is 2 we have to allocate/reserve 3 slot
as long as we use them as array indexes (which we could change in the future).
Unfortunately this means we waste the index zero in those arrays that will
always be unused. This also means that, to loop in such arrays we must begin
with OREAD as index zero is always empty.
PRO-MEMORIA: if/when we introduce the walk() syscall, OSTAT might turn useless.
In that case we might remove it and thus consider to move back OREAD/OWRITE
to 0/1 respectively (which might or might not be a good idea, to be analyzed).
In Plan9 the create syscall fallback on a open(OTRUNC) if the
path provided already exists. This is actually a common requirement
as most programs (editors, cat...) simply requires that a file is
there and is empty, and doesn't care overwriting existing contents
(note that this is particularily sensible with something like fossil).
In Jehanne the application is responsible of actually handle this
"file exists" error but libc provides ocreate() to mimic the Plan9
behaviour. Note that ocreate introduce a subtle race too: the path
is walked several times if the file exists, thus it could misbehave
on concurrent namespace changes. However I guess this is not going to
happen often enough to care now.
NOTE we will probably address this rare race too, with a more drammatic change
to syscalls: a new walk() syscall that will provide an unopen fd.
Devself provides to each process access to its own structures.
So far it contains four files:
- pid
- ppid
- pipes used to implement pipe(2)
- segments used to implement segattach, segdetach and segfree
Jehanne is going to use a new file protocol, but Plan 9 is really
coupled with 9P2000.
Renamed fcall.h as 9P2000.h and introduced specific constants such
as NP_OREAD, NP_OWRITE and so on, so that we can use different values
in the kernel and new protocol.
Renamed devmnt to devninep, since it's actually a device serving 9P2000
file systems.
Also, fixed 9P2000 support in Jehanne, that was broken with the introduction
of OSTAT.
Giacomo Tesio