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The realpath syscall can attempt to return arbitrarily long paths, in particular paths that are longer than PATH_MAX. The only way to detect this case is checking whether 'rc', the true length of the returned path including NUL byte, exceeds our buffer length. In such a case, the buffer contains invalid data. All Serenity code calls LibC's realpath() with a nullptr buffer, meaning that realpath is supposed to allocate memory on its own. All Serenity code can handle arbitrarily long paths returned by LibC's realpath, so it is safe to "do the dance" and repeat the syscall with a new buffer. Ports are likely to be graceful in this regard, too. If a Port calls realpath() with a pre-allocated buffer, however, there is nothing better we can do than return a truncated buffer.
SerenityOS
Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers.
About
SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems.
Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-2000s *nix. This is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like.
I (Andreas) regularly post raw hacking sessions and demos on my YouTube channel.
Sometimes I write about the system on my github.io blog.
I'm also on Patreon and GitHub Sponsors if you would like to show some support that way.
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Kernel features
- x86 (32-bit) kernel with pre-emptive multi-threading
- Hardware protections (SMEP, SMAP, UMIP, NX, WP, TSD, ...)
- IPv4 stack with ARP, TCP, UDP and ICMP protocols
- ext2 filesystem
- POSIX signals
- Purgeable memory
- /proc filesystem
- Pseudoterminals (with /dev/pts filesystem)
- Filesystem notifications
- CPU and memory profiling
- SoundBlaster 16 driver
- VMWare/QEMU mouse integration
System services
- Launch/session daemon (SystemServer)
- Compositing window server (WindowServer)
- Text console manager (TTYServer)
- DNS client (LookupServer)
- Network protocols server (ProtocolServer)
- Software-mixing sound daemon (AudioServer)
- Desktop notifications (NotificationServer)
- HTTP server (WebServer)
- Telnet server (TelnetServer)
- DHCP client (DHCPClient)
Libraries
- C++ templates and containers (AK)
- Event loop and utilities (LibCore)
- 2D graphics library (LibGfx)
- GUI toolkit (LibGUI)
- Cross-process communication library (LibIPC)
- HTML/CSS engine (LibWeb)
- JavaScript engine (LibJS)
- Markdown (LibMarkdown)
- Audio (LibAudio)
- PCI database (LibPCIDB)
- Terminal emulation (LibVT)
- Out-of-process network protocol I/O (LibProtocol)
- Mathematical functions (LibM)
- ELF file handling (LibELF)
- POSIX threading (LibPthread)
- Higher-level threading (LibThread)
- Transport Layer Security (LibTLS)
- HTTP and HTTPS (LibHTTP)
Userland features
- Unix-like libc and userland
- Shell with pipes and I/O redirection
- On-line help system (both terminal and GUI variants)
- Web browser (Browser)
- C++ IDE (HackStudio)
- IRC client
- Desktop synthesizer (Piano)
- Various desktop apps & games
- Color themes
How do I read the documentation?
Man pages are browsable outside of SerenityOS under Base/usr/share/man.
When running SerenityOS you can use man for the terminal interface, or help for the GUI interface.
How do I build and run this?
See the SerenityOS build instructions
Before opening an issue
Please see the issue policy.
Communication hubs
The main hub is #serenityos on the Freenode IRC network.
We also have a project mailing list: serenityos-dev.
Author
- Andreas Kling - awesomekling
Contributors
- Robin Burchell - rburchell
- Conrad Pankoff - deoxxa
- Sergey Bugaev - bugaevc
- Liav A - supercomputer7
- Linus Groh - linusg
- Ali Mohammad Pur - alimpfard
- Shannon Booth - shannonbooth
- Hüseyin ASLITÜRK - asliturk
- Matthew Olsson - mattco98
- Nico Weber - nico
- Brian Gianforcaro - bgianfo
- Ben Wiederhake - BenWiederhake
- Tom - tomuta
- Paul Scharnofske - asynts
- Itamar Shenhar - itamar8910
- Luke Wilde - Lubrsi
- Brendan Coles - bcoles
- Andrew Kaster - ADKaster
(And many more!) The people listed above have landed more than 100 commits in the project. :^)
License
SerenityOS is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.