There's no need to have separate syscall for this kind of functionality,
as we can just have a device node in /dev, called "beep", that allows
writing tone generation packets to emulate the same behavior.
In addition to that, we remove LibC sysbeep function, as this function
was never being used by any C program nor it was standardized in any
way.
Instead, we move the userspace implementation to LibCore.
This commit removes DeprecatedString's "null" state, and replaces all
its users with one of the following:
- A normal, empty DeprecatedString
- Optional<DeprecatedString>
Note that null states of DeprecatedFlyString/StringView/etc are *not*
affected by this commit. However, DeprecatedString::empty() is now
considered equal to a null StringView.
The internal reuse of FixedMemoryStream makes this straightforward.
There alread is one user of the new API, demonstrating the need for this
change beyond what I said out to use it for :^)
Since it will become a stream in a little bit, it should behave like all
non-trivial stream classes, who are not primarily intended to have
shared ownership to make closing behavior more predictable. Across all
uses of MappedFile, there is only one use case of shared mapped files in
LibVideo, which now uses the thin SharedMappedFile wrapper.
Previously, argument-less options could only set a boolean to true. This
lets them also set an enum variable to a specific value, as is currently
done by the `ls` utility.
Without using PATH_MAX :^)
To read a symlink, we can just open its file with O_NOLINK and read its
contents. To get the executable path, we could read the /proc/self/exe
link like the Linux version does; but that relies on procfs being
mounted. Instead, we could do what procfs itself does to get the path:
ask the proc server about it.
On FreeBSD and GNU/Hurd, SHM_ANON is a nice way to create anonymous
files using the usual shm_open() API. This is a lot like the fallback
shm_open() branch that follows, except we don't have to fool around
with choosing a unique name (with retrying) and unlinking the file
afterwards; it just does the right thing. Isn't this nice?
The Hurd supports sending file descriptors over local sockets using
the SCM_RIGHTS / cmsg mechanism just like the other systems. It doesn't
have anything like ucred/PEERCRED, though.
MAP_FILE is not in POSIX, and is simply in most LibCs as a "default"
mode. Our own LibC defines it as 0, meaning "no flags". It is also not
defined in some OS's, such as Haiku. Let's be more portable and not use
the unnecessary flag.
If stop_timer() is called from ~EventReceiver(), then the virtual
functions will end up calling the overload from the base class. As
EventReceiver::class_name() is pure virtual, this calls
__cxa_pure_virtual and crashes. We should not be calling virtual
functions from the destructor, and especially not pure virtual ones.
This "fixes" a crash in Piano, but the root cause of the problem is
still unfixed.
Instead of grabbing `uname -vr` on non-Serenity platforms, let's just
hardcode a version. This prevents Lagom builds of applications like
Shell or Ladybird from reporting their version as that of the host OS.
These syscalls are not necessary on their own, and they give the false
impression that a caller could set or get the thread name of any process
in the system, which is not true.
Therefore, move the functionality of these syscalls to be options in the
prctl syscall, which makes it abundantly clear that these operations
could only occur from a running thread in a process that sees other
threads in that process only.
IFF was a generic container fileformat that was popular on the Amiga
since it was the only file format supported by Deluxe Paint.
ILBM is an image format popular in the late eighties/nineties
that uses the IFF container.
This is a very first version of the decoder that only supports
(byterun) compressed files with bpp <= 8.
Only the minimal chunks are decoded: CMAP, BODY, BMHD.
I am planning to add support for the following variants:
- EHB (32 colours + lighter 32 colours)
- HAM6 / HAM8 (special mode that allowed to display the whole Amiga
4096 colours / 262 144 colours palette)
- TrueColor (24bit)
Things that could be fun to do:
- Still images could be animated using color cycle information
Just like with input buffered streams, we don't currently have a use
case for output buffered streams which aren't seekable, since the main
application are files.
