| 1 | This is a very brain dead shell. It needs some love, coffee or perhaps beer.
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| 2 | Currently, you can't even really call it a shell, its more of a CLI that
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| 3 | offers some shell like creature comforts.
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| 4 |
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| 5 | This was written in a hurry to provide some means of testing persistent file
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| 6 | systems in HelenOS. It does its job, its nowhere near complete but it is
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| 7 | actively developed. If your reading this, its likely that you're looking for
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| 8 | some functionality that is not yet present. Prior to filing a bug report,
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| 9 | please make sure that what you want is not on the list below.
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| 10 |
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| 11 | A list of things to do:
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| 12 | -----------------------
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| 13 |
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| 14 | * rm: add support for recursively removing directories and files therein
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| 15 |
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| 16 | * Port an editor (vim?)
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| 17 |
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| 18 | * Finish cat / cp
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| 19 |
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| 20 | * Support basic redirection (i.e ls > foo.txt)
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| 21 |
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| 22 | * Expand wildcards (i.e. *.txt), don't worry about variables for now
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| 23 |
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| 24 | * Basic scripting
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| 25 |
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| 26 | * Hash previously found commands
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| 27 |
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| 28 | * Improve input, add history / etc (port libedit?)
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| 29 |
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| 30 | * Add wrappers for signal, sigaction to make ports to modules easier
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| 31 |
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| 32 | Regarding POSIX:
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| 33 | ----------------
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| 34 | POSIX is a standard for Unix-like operating systems. HelenOS is (mostly) just
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| 35 | a kernel at this point with a few userspace programs that facilitate testing
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| 36 | of the kernel and file systems.
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| 37 |
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| 38 | HelenOS is not a Unix-like operating system. HelenOS is its own thing, a modern
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| 39 | microkernel OS and many directions are not yet set.
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| 40 |
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| 41 | Please do not e-mail me to point out that modular implementations that resemble
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| 42 | typical core utilities do not conform to some POSIX standard, these are temporary
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| 43 | and serve the useful purpose of testing persistent file systems.
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| 44 |
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| 45 | Contributing:
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| 46 | -------------
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| 47 | If you feel like doing any of the above to-do items, I am echo@echoreply.us. Please
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| 48 | e-mail me and let me know your working on something so that I do not unwittingly
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| 49 | duplicate your efforts. You can also e-mail the HelenOS list directly:
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| 50 |
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| 51 | HelenOS development mailing list <helenos-devel@lists.modry.cz>
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| 52 | Subscribe here if you like: http://lists.modry.cz/cgi-bin/listinfo/helenos-devel
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| 53 |
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| 54 | Cheers and happy hacking!
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| 55 | --Tim
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