FOSDEM 2018

2018-01-16 Thread Norman Feske
Hello everyone, just in case you are not monitoring the news items at genode.org, let me make you aware of the upcoming FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/2018/) held on 3rd and 4th of February. The microkernel developer room at FOSDEM is the melting pot of the open-source microkernel world where

Linux IO_MEM session

2018-01-16 Thread Johannes Kliemann
Hi all, I'm currently implementing a IO_MEM session for base-linux. The basic idea is as follows: - core opens a file in /dev/ and calls an ioctl on the file to set a memory range. - it passes this file descriptor to the child process that requested the session - the child process mmaps the

Re: blocking canceled in entrypoint constructor

2018-01-16 Thread Johannes Kliemann
Hi Christian, thanks for these hints. I have logged the signals and SIGCHLD is received directly before the occurrence of the warning so I suspect that this is the problematic signal. I also set up a signal handler to catch all other signals and it only logged the according signal number.