on systems with serial console and graphics such as the raspberry pi,
it is nice to get a system shell on the serial console even when no
monitor is connected.
when /n/src9 is an alias for / (bind / /n/src9), then the bind
from /sys/lib/dist/usr on /n/src9/usr would also overbind
/usr and potentially make the build target file inaccessible.
the solution is to run aux/stub -d /n/src9/usr.
this works as aux/stub mounts itself on /n/src9, so the bind
for /n/src9/usr will not override /usr in the root filesystem
but the stub directory from aux/stub.
there isnt much of a point in keep maintaining separate
kernel configurations for terminal and cpu kernels as
the role can be switched with service=cpu boot parameter.
to make stuff cosistent, we will just have one "pc" kernel
and one "pc64" kernel configuration now.
- bind /n/src9 only when theres .hg directory, so you can use /root as /n/src9
- skip *.6 and *.orig files in source direcrtories
- skip *.pdf and *.ps files in /sys/man
- skip cpurc.local and termrc.local
- dont create /fd, /mnt and/n in the root
- be specific about /lib
- create /cfg/pxe
this is a reimplementation of cpu and import utilities in rc using a tlsclient
and tlssrv as the encryption and authentication layers. there is only one new
service, which after authentication and encryption setup accepts an arbitrary
rc script over the network and executes it with the standard filedescriptors
redirected to the conversaion (this is *after* authentication and in the
context of the authorized user).
the new rcpu program has a few improvements over cpu(1):
- doesnt mangle program arguments
- the remote process will get the clients standard file descriptors, so error
and output are separated and you can consume the clients input from the
remote side :-)
- forwards error status of remote process
theres no backwards mode for rimport, but a new program called rexport
for the same purpose.
all these services use exportfs without the bolted on initial handshake,
so the hope is to clean up exportfs in the future and remove all the ugly
crap in there.
this generates a disk image (to be written to usb or
sdmmc card) containing 9fat partition with kernel and
a hjfs filesystem partition with the 9front distribution.
this could be easily extended to generate raspberry pi
images as well, but i have no hardware to test.
this makes sure tcp boot will have ther user /tmp's
the same way as from local cwfs. we used /srv/cwfs
to prevent a deadlock with 9660srv as a root filesystem
which has been fixed now.
