RE: [MiNT] What's in, what's out?

[Odd Skancke <oskancke@online.no>]

 Hi, Frank,

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> The main point of this discussion is the way of FreeMiNT. Eventual it's
> time for a goal redefinition.
> 
> My main goal is stability, speed and more Unix functionality.
> Second goal is to save/enhance TOS compatibility.
> 
> Until now I also rejected extensions that don't follow the philosophy of
> a good operating system design (like joergs trapatch extension). My
> references for a good design is A.Tanenbaum, "Modern Operating Systems" 
> and "The design and implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating system" from
> McKusick, Bostic, Karels and Quarterman.
> 
> The main point are the Unix extensions. In my eyes it's very helpful for
> the future and for software porting if we agressive enhace the kernel for
> elementar functions.
> 
> Until now I added 4 new systemcalls: Dchroot(), Ffchown(), Ffchmod(),
> Fstat64(). For the future I planned mmap/getmntent/user_context functions.
> I also prepared Fsync(). The MiNT-Lib will support all of these new
> features for a higher Unix compatibility.
> 
> This affects mostly Unix programs that can better run under MiNT.
> 

 And this is exactly the way I want it to move ;-) Keep it up the
excellent work, man!!



 Regards,

 Odd Skancke - ozk@atari.org