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OS/161 was written by David A. Holland, with contributions from
	Amos Blackman
	Alexandra Fedorova
	Ada T. Lim
	Georgi Matev
	Jay Moorthi
	Geoffrey Werner-Allen

Additional small patches and bug reports have been contributed by
various other people, all of whom are (hopefully) listed below.

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20140924 dholland	OS/161 1.99.08 released. Consider this 2.0-RC1.
20140924 dholland	Make km3 rotate object sizes as originally intended.
20140924 dholland	Make frack print a visible divider when it syncs.
20140922 dholland	Add /bin/tac, which uses unlinked scratch files.
20140919 dholland	Allow giving testbin/bigfile the chunk size to write.
20140919 dholland	Add a design doc about the structure of assignments.
20140919 dholland	Make certain sfsck checks set the exit status properly.
20140918 dholland	Provide general-purpose metadata I/O function in sfs.
20140916 dholland	Remove size workaround in bigexec; fixed solution set.
20140904 dholland	Fix problem with stray symlinks in $(OSTREE)/include.
20140904 dholland	Change sfs_vnode->sv_v to sv_absvn for consistency.
20140904 dholland	Add bloat test; it uses all available memory rapidly.
20140904 dholland	Fix testbin/crash for gcc 4.8.
20140904 dholland	Make testbin/filetest do something useful if no argv.
20140904 dholland	Declare userland err* __DEAD.
20140904 dholland	Add sys/cdefs.h and move userland __DEAD there.
20140903 dholland	Simplify ram.c interface as suggested by my students.
20140829 dholland	Add km4: a kmalloc test for multipage allocations.
20140829 dholland	Add multiexec test for lots of procs in exec at once.
20140828 dholland	Tighten asm constraints for gcc 4.8.
20140828 dholland	Fix inlining for gcc 4.8, and a few other build issues.
20140825 dholland	Remove vnode open count and VOP_INC/DECOPEN.
20140825 dholland	Remove VOP_LASTCLOSE; nothing uses it any more.
20140825 dholland	Don't fsync in sfs_lastclose; it's outdated practice.
20140825 dholland	Remove DEVOP_LASTCLOSE; nothing uses it and we will
........         	never add rewind-on-close tape devices.
20140825 dholland	Use a separate spinlock for vnode refcounts. (Using
........                vfs_biglock causes sleeping while holding spinlocks.)
20140825 dholland	Don't use sfs_io() for directory entries.
20140821 dholland	Replace VOP_TRYSEEK with static VOP_ISSEEKABLE.
20140821 dholland	Make devices check seek position validity on the fly.
20140806 dholland	Make sfs_link reject directories. From Anne Madoff.
20140730 dholland	Make testbin/hog run longer.
20140729 dholland	Document psort's sizing knobs.
20140729 dholland	Make psort big enough to be useful as a fs test.
20140729 dholland	Add ARRAYCOUNT() macro for static array length.
20140729 dholland	Add array_preallocate().
20140729 dholland	Make npages argument of alloc_kpages() unsigned.
20140729 dholland	Tidy up construction/destruction of struct sfs_fs.
20140728 dholland	Make sfs_read/writeblock take the buffer length.
........		(Always do that, even if it's the same everywhere.)
20140728 dholland	struct sfs_super -> struct sfs_superblock.
20140728 dholland	Adjust SFS code to make it more readily extensible.
20140728 dholland	Always call SFS's free block bitmap the "freemap".
20140728 dholland	Rename a bunch of the SFS constants for clarity.
20140725 dholland	Add usemtest for checking the semfs semaphores.
20140724 dholland	Make failed SFS writes not increase the file size.
20140724 dholland	Distinguish MIPS 512M RAM limit and LAMEbus 508M limit.
20140722 dholland	sfs_dir -> sfs_direntry, by popular demand.
20140722 dholland	Add some notes about the atomicity of dup2().
20140722 dholland	Add notes about the limits of syscall atomicity in
........         	multithreaded processes. From Jared Pochtar.
20140722 dholland	Add redirect test to check stdin/stdout redirection.
20140722 dholland	Fix emufs handling of seek positions beyond 2^32.
20140722 dholland	Add bigseek test for checking seeks beyond 2^32.
20140721 dholland	Add file open mode checks to badcall.
20140721 dholland	Fix interaction of kmalloc guards and kmalloc labels.
20140721 dholland	Be more conservative about panic on stray interrupt.
20140721 dholland	Fix userland build to not rebuild unnecessarily.
20140721 dholland	Fix userland build to not belch on removed .h files.
20140721 dholland	In badcall, don't shout if mkdir isn't implemented.
20140717 dholland	Fix misleading comments and variable names in proc.c.
20140716 dholland	Add -w option to parallelvm to wait for forking.
20140716 dholland	Replace a busywait in badcall with the new semaphores.
20140716 dholland	Provide userlevel semaphores via semfs filesystem.
........                Open "sem:<name>", then read to P() and write to V().
20140716 dholland	Move the just-fail vnode op stubs to VFS.
20140710 dholland	Added new test program: sbrktest.
20140710 dholland	Make the libc qsort() actually quicksort.
20140709 dholland	Ship qsort() in libc, not in sfsck's compat code.
20140709 dholland	SWAP{S,L,LL} -> SWAP{16,32,64} in sfs tools.
20140709 dholland	Fix reversed found/expected printout in frack check.
20140518 dholland	Fix embarrasing sort bugs in native sfsck.
20140430 dholland	Add poisondisk tool for testing file system recovery.
20140428 dholland	Add hostcompat logic for 64-bit byte-swapping.
20140417 dholland	Fix zero to use page-sized sbrk calls.
20140415 dholland	Rewrite dumpsfs and make it much more useful.
20140414 dholland	Fix missing initialization of cpu->c_spinlocks.
20140410 dholland	Fix bug in malloc changes. Add assertion to malloctest.
20140326 dholland	Make userlevel malloc allocate in page-sized chunks.
20140326 dholland	Fix the (unused) 64-bit userlevel malloc code.
20140314 dholland	Make forktest show how much output is expected.
20140220 dholland	Add new sy4 test for CVs.
20140211 dholland	Tidy some logic in thread_make_runnable.
20140211 dholland	Mark threads READY when waking them. From Anne Madoff.
20140201 dholland	Fix some outdated comments, reported by Emmet Jao.
20140128 dholland	Fix default OSTREE in configure script.

20140123 dholland	OS/161 1.99.07 released.
20140123 dholland	Add "frack" test (filesystem recover and check).
20140123 dholland	Add factorial test that computes using execv.
20140123 dholland	Add fs6 test that creates lots of small files.
20140122 dholland	Mark enter_new_process and related code __DEAD.
20140122 dholland	Make the semaphore counter unsigned.
20140122 dholland	When kmalloc gets a page, assert that it's aligned.
20140122 dholland	Fix error leak in sfs_balloc; from Christian Anderson.
20140122 dholland	Use ssize_t and pid_t more in unistd.h.
20140122 dholland	Add discussion of ARG_MAX to execv man page.
20140122 dholland	Add missing <stdbool.h> for userland.
20140122 dholland	Added sparsefile test program for making sparse files.
20140122 dholland	splx() needs to work before curcpu/curthread exists.
20140122 dholland	Clarify that proc_remthread requires splhigh.
20140115 dholland	Remove VOP_INIT/CLEANUP macros. Use vnode_init/cleanup.
20140115 dholland	Make device open/close eachopen/lastclose like vnodes.
20140115 dholland	Move vfs-level device ops to an ops table struct.
20140115 dholland	Clarify/correct comments pertaining to O_APPEND.
20140114 dholland	Reorganize SFS sources.
20131112 dholland	In SFS, always provide N{,D,T}INDIRECT macros.
20131112 dholland	Reorganize sfsck sources; rework and improve sfsck.
20131110 dholland	Don't use uninitialized file permissions in badcall.
20131110 dholland	Provide __UNUSED along with __PF and __DEAD.
20131108 dholland	Rearrange (and fix) hacks for _exit() returning.
........		It now faults on "0xeeeee00f" if it can't exit.
20131107 dholland	Handle TLB pipeline hazards correctly.
20131107 dholland	Add some sample/experimental gdb scripts.
20131107 dholland	Make the console polling logic not use internal vars.
20131107 dholland	Have wchan_sleep assert if holding extra spinlocks.
20131107 dholland	Don't use assignment numbers for kernel configs.
20131107 dholland	Remove the synch problems from the base system.
20131107 dholland	Rename src/user -> src/userland. Seems to be the best
........		choice among a number of unappealing alternatives.
20131105 dholland	Disallow EINVAL for "no such process" in badcall.
20131105 dholland	Clean up sh's use of exit codes.
20131105 dholland	Have testbin/crash check the signal numbers produced.
20131105 dholland	Create an array of all wchans for debug purposes.
20131105 dholland	Rearranged wchan API to make wchans more like CVs.
20131105 dholland	Print the processor ID and version correctly.
20131105 dholland	Fix boot on pre-multiprocessor System/161.
20131105 dholland	Parallelize the kernel depend logic.
20131104 dholland	Add and use memory barrier ops header. Minor impact.
20131104 dholland	Rename sfs_inode to sfs_dinode.
20131101 dholland	Edit and revise the man pages. Add some missing ones.
20131101 dholland	Updated the docs and specs for waitpid.
20131030 dholland	Use execvp() in sh. Don't have to type /bin/cat now.
20131030 dholland	Provide getenv() and execvp() in libc.
20131030 dholland	enter_user_process() now accepts an environ pointer.
20131030 dholland	Add quinthuge, quintmat, quintsort tests.
20131030 dholland	Added a libtest with common stuff for testbin/.
20131030 dholland	Rewrote the .depend-munging script to be readable.
20131030 dholland	Use ENOSYS (standard) instead of EUNIMP (which isn't).
20131030 dholland	Fix badcall to expect with null status to succeed.
20131030 dholland	Don't use unportable function casts in sfs.
20131029 dholland	Add a memory leak detection mode to kmalloc.
20131029 dholland	Add more kmalloc debugging modes and checks.
20131028 dholland	Move the whole-filesystem ops to an ops table struct.
20131028 dholland	Use designated initializers for the vnode ops tables.
20131028 dholland	Fix the way thread_panic zaps the run queue.
20131028 dholland	Moved memset.c to common/ for use in the kernel.
20131028 dholland	Mark thread_exit() __DEAD.
20131028 dholland	Fix addrspace handling in proc_destroy().
20131025 dholland	Improved kmalloc to support larger kernel heaps.
20131025 dholland	Add another kmalloc test, this one of variable size.
20131025 dholland	Make printf accept %zd/%zu for size_t.
20130531 dholland	Add tests for the threadlist code.
20130531 dholland	Fix threadlist iterators again. From Steven Talbot.
20130531 dholland	Do thread migration *before* running the scheduler.
20130531 dholland	Add some more assertions to kfree.
20130531 dholland	Make badcall understand wait-for-any waitpid().
20130531 dholland	Provide a predepend: hook for makefiles.
20130531 dholland	Put .depend files in build tree where they belong.
20130531 dholland	Fix depends bug in os161.hostcompile.mk.
20130531 dholland	Remove getinterval(); replace with timespec arithmetic.
20130531 dholland	Use struct timespec inside the kernel.
20130531 dholland	Move kern/startup -> kern/main, like it was in 1.x.
20130531 dholland	Add "zero" test; checks if the VM system zeros pages.
20130531 dholland	Change as_activate() to always activate curproc's AS.
20130531 dholland	Provide both thread and process structures by default.
20130530 dholland	Fix the scheme for probing LAMEbus device versions;
........		don't require lockstep upgrades for System/161 changes.
20130530 dholland	Fix typo in comment, from Saagar Deshpande.
20130530 dholland	Add comment warning against borrowing from dumbvm.
20130530 dholland	Increase DUMBVM_STACKPAGES so 64K argv blocks will fit.
20130514 dholland	Teach sfsck to handle dirs with invalid inode numbers.
20130503 dholland	Fix another problem in the inode array in sfsck.
........		Reported by multiple students.
20130429 dholland	Fix sfsck bitmap-checking problem.
20130311 dholland	Declare panic() and badassert() noreturn.
20130308 dholland	Fix fd leak in badcall, found by George Kulakowski.
20130306 dholland	Fix off_t printing in randcall, found by David Palmer.
20110427 dholland	Fix typo in badcall, from Andy Brody.
20110425 dholland	Fix catastrophic bug in sfsck. Found by Jim Danz.
20110420 dholland	Add new bigexec test for checking large argvs.
20110319 dholland	Use va_copy() in __printf. (At least if available.)
20110223 dholland	array.h needs cdefs.h and lib.h. Caught by Amy Tai.
20110127 dholland	Fix host-psort build problem caused by glibc on Linux.

20110126 dholland	OS/161 1.99.06 released.
20110126 dholland	Fix some parallel build problems.
20110126 dholland	Rename fs5 test to "long stress test".
20110126 dholland	Clarify that struct tlbshootdown is a placeholder.
20110126 dholland	Fix randcall makefile to put calls.c in the build dir.
20110126 dholland	VOP_OPEN -> VOP_EACHOPEN; VOP_CLOSE -> VOP_LASTCLOSE.
20110126 dholland	Name struct spinlock's members splk_*, not lk_*.
20110126 dholland	sfs_fs.c -> sfs_fsops.c, sfs_vnode.c -> sfs_vnops.c
20100819 dholland	Fix the stray console IRQs problem properly. This
........		requires System/161 1.99.05 or higher.
20100819 dholland	Revert start/endpolling hack for stray console IRQs.
........ 		(But keep the code for masking interrupts.)
20100819 dholland	Don't leave the IPI spinlock dangling on a panic IPI.

20100108 dholland	OS/161 1.99.05 released.
20100108 dholland	Don't cut corners with relocs in mips-exception1.S.
20100108 dholland	Rearrange how curthread/curcpu get defined, so the
........		mips gdb can see curthread.
20100108 dholland	Disable BSS zeroing in loadelf, because VM systems
........		should already provide zeroed pages. Make dumbvm do so.
20100108 dholland	Add ASST3-OPT optimizing config.
20100108 dholland	Add the usermalloc design doc to design/.
20100108 dholland	Add the shell's design doc to design/.
20100108 dholland	Fix outdated comment in start.S.
20100108 dholland	Move clocksleep() decl to <clock.h>.
20100107 dholland	Clarify various comments that seem lacking.
20090427 dholland	Fix miscommented uio direction constants. Doh.
........		Found by the students...
20090424 dholland	Add missing as_activate(NULL) during thread exit.
20090416 dholland	Fix err/warn vs. errx/warnx usage in various tests.
........		Mostly from Robert J. Helblin and Peter Salas.
20090413 dholland	Use EFBIG, not EINVAL, for "file too large".
20090402 dholland	Make sbrk badcall "unaligned negative" really negative.
20090402 dholland	Add clarifying comments to struct tlbshootdown.
20090320 dholland	Fix DEBUG() so it accepts zero vararg parameters.
20090214 dholland	Remove some references to obsolete name "md_usermode".
20090213 dholland	Note that wchans don't promise to be FIFO.
20090205 dholland	Add missing 'volatile' to spinlock.h.

20090414 dholland	OS/161 1.99.04 released.
20090414 dholland	Fix typo in kern/sfs.h.
20090414 dholland	Fix testbin/psort up so it works adequately on sfs.
20090413 dholland	Make sfsck track indirect blocks in the free map right.
20090413 dholland	Fix bug where sfsck chokes on size 0 directories.
20090413 dholland	Fix case where sfsck can't add missing ./.. entries.
20090413 dholland	Add sfsck, simple check/recovery tool for sfs.

20090402 dholland	OS/161 1.99.03 released.
20090402 dholland	Fix build of testbin/malloctest.
20090320 dholland	Check CURCPU_EXISTS in spinlock_do_i_hold.
20090313 dholland	Fix threadlist iterator macros.

20090219 dholland	OS/161 1.99.02 released.
20090219 dholland	Add missing W* macros with waitpid in testbin progs.
20090219 dholland	Work around gcc tailcall bug affecting testbin/crash.
20090219 dholland	Fix missing vfs_biglock ops in vfs_getcwd().
20090219 dholland	Fix bad userland declaration of lseek().
20090219 dholland	Fix userland .depend file generation.
20090219 dholland	Add join32to64 and split64to32.
20090219 dholland	Clarify some comments in the mips syscall.c.
20090219 dholland	Make stack frames in assembly code 64-bit aligned.
20090217 dholland	Fix some glitches in the shell.
20090210 dholland	Fix interrupt level management in trap handling.
20090209 dholland	The on-chip timers can't be used for clocksleep().

20090203 dholland	OS/161 1.99.01 released.
20090202 dholland	Don't ever migrate curthread to another cpu.
20090202 dholland	Use the W* wait macros in the shell.
20090202 dholland	Document the W* wait macros.

20090202 dholland	OS/161 1.99.00 released.
20090201 dholland	Fix some bugs.
20090201 dholland	Add an input buffer to the console device.
20090201 dholland	Change kernel load address to waste less low memory.
20090201 dholland	Implement kernel-side support for the GP register.
20090201 dholland	Update man pages for 2.x.
20090201 dholland	Remove the built-in copy of make. Too much realism;
			it creates unnecessary hassles. Just ship make with
			the toolchain.
200901** dholland	Assorted major hacking to prepare first pre-2.0 tree.
			Multiprocessor support.
			Improve organization of source tree.
			Add the shell and user malloc to the base system.
20081224 dholland	Begin importing OS/161 1.x bits.
			(OS/161 2.x branches off from what's projected to be
			OS/161 1.x release 1.12.)



OS/161 1.x change log:
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20090115 dholland	Fix wrong comment in lib.h.
20090106 dholland	Fix typo in error message in newvers.sh.
20080825 dholland	Fix typo in comment in start.S.
20080825 dholland	Add curspl assertion to thread_yield.
			(Reported by Melissa O'Neill a long time ago.)

20050913 dholland	OS/161 1.11 released.
20050907 dholland	Minor changes for clean build under gcc 4.0.1.
20050321 dholland	Add volatile to testbin/ctest. (found by Qicheng Ma)
20050307 dholland	Create <machine/ktypes.h> for vaddr_t/paddr_t.
20050228 dholland	Some standards compliance. (found by R.L. West)
20040510 dholland	Fix args handling in testbin/tail. (Lukasz Strozek)
20040204 dholland	Be more consistent about refcounts in vfscwd.c.

20040203 dholland	OS/161 1.10 released.
20040203 dholland	Support for hosting OS/161 on Solaris.
20040202 dholland	Update stdarg.h for gcc 3.x; remove machine/stdarg.h.

20031227 dholland	OS/161 1.09 released.
20031224 dholland	Add missing man page for triplesort.
20031224 dholland	Fix failed compile in lnet.c, currently a null driver.
20031224 dholland	Fix badcall so it doesn't blow up on empty stdin.
20031224 dholland	Fix argument handling in bin/ln. (Hassan Sultan)
20031224 dholland	Fix link count leak in sfs_rename. (Brian Greenberg)
20031224 dholland	Fix silly use-after-free in an SFS mount error path.
20031224 dholland	Fix unaligned sections in dumbvm. (Mike Hamburg)
20031224 dholland	Change "asst1probs" to "synchprobs".
20031224 dholland	Refer to assts by content, not number, where possible.
20031224 dholland	Fix some nonsensical but working code in /bin/pwd.
20031224 dholland	Update stack assertions in mips/trap.c for 4k stacks.
20031224 dholland	Install kernels using their configuration name.
20031224 dholland	Clarify some aspects of the locks/CVs API.
20031224 dholland	Fix assorted comment typos and glitches.
20030626 dholland	Commit the fix for a refcounting mistake in SFS.
20030626 dholland	Fix glitch in one of the dup2 tests in testbin/badcall.
20030626 dholland	Add missing sized type in mksfs/support.h.
20030626 dholland	Fix "make depend" glitch in dumpsfs.
20030626 dholland	Fix minor off-by-one error in menu code.
20030421 dholland       Fix assertion failure in kernel heap dump code.
20030421 dholland       Fix crash in testbin/dirconc.
20030309 dholland	Make shell accept being run with argc==0.
20030309 dholland	Add support for WNOHANG to shell.

20030221 dholland	OS/161 1.08 released.
20030221 dholland	Fix broken hostcompat build with some Linux libcs.
20030207 gwa/dholland	Fix broken ASST1 build caused by rushed release.

20030131 dholland	OS/161 1.07 released.
20030131 gwa		New assignment 1 problems for 2003.
20030129 dholland	Make console device full-duplex.
20030129 dholland	Check for short reads when loading executable headers.
20030129 dholland	Make rmtest a single standalone executable.
20030129 dholland	Make first thread stack also 4k rather than 8k.
20030129 dholland	Fix minor VFS bug handling multiple leading slashes.
20030129 dholland	Remove code duplication in triple* tests.
20030129 dholland	Add triplesort test (like triplemat).
20030128 dholland	Make f_test a single standalone executable.
20030128 dholland	Add t_ prefix to struct thread members for consistency.
20030128 dholland	bzero by words instead of bytes when properly aligned.
20030128 dholland	Add memcmp() to libc.
20030127 dholland	Minor fixes to parallelvm.

20030117 dholland	OS/161 1.06 released.
20030110 dholland	Fix bug in setjmp/longjmp.
20030110 dholland	Add small explanatory comment to dev/lamebus/emu.c.
20021120 dholland	Have configure script provide NM and HOST_NM.
20021120 dholland	Merge hostcompat fixes for Mac OS X.
20021001 dholland	Avoid undefined C behavior in atoi().
20020920 dholland	Provide string names for mips trap codes.
20020920 dholland	Fix handling of boot-time kernel memory faults.

20020917 dholland	OS/161 1.05 released.
20020913 dholland	Created this changelog from CVS log data.
20020904 dholland	Cleanup/improvement for testbin/malloctest.
20020904 dholland	Add code to shell to do timing of subprocesses.
20020904 dholland	Adjust prototype for __time() for hostcompat reasons.
20020904 dholland	Add parallelvm and dirconc to the default build.
20020904 dholland	Add mode to testbin/crash to fork and run everything.
20020904 dholland	Retry certain I/O errors in emufs and sfs.
20020904 dholland	Make vfs_close not fail.
20020830 dholland	Prohibit slashes and colons in volume names in mksfs.
20020830 dholland	_O_RDWRMASK -> O_ACCMODE, per POSIX.
20020830 dholland	Shrink kernel stacks from 8k to 4k.
20020830 dholland	Merge the code for the 'p' and 's' menu commands.
20020830 dholland	Don't use OPEN_MAX in the base system.
20020829 dholland	Include a copy of the error strings in the kernel.
20020829 dholland	Assert that spl is 0 on syscall entry and exit.
20020829 dholland	Fixes and new tests for testbin/badcall.
20020829 dholland	Add code and menu command for dumping kernel heap.
20020827 dholland	Close current directory at shutdown time.
20020827 dholland	Clear bootfs at shutdown time.
20020827 dholland	Remove extraneous magic argument from free_kpages().
20020827 dholland	Fix dangling lock bug in emufs.
20020826 dholland	Man page fixes for read, write, waitpid.
20020808 dholland	Make Ant-32 port mostly work.
20020625 dholland	Kernel makefile tweak for stupid makes.
20020618 dholland	Fixes to the Ant-32 port.
20020617 dholland	Update the (unreleased) Ant-32 port.
20020523 dholland	Make matmult exit 1 on failure.
20020523 dholland	Fix various forking userlevel tests to wait properly.
20020523 dholland	Check for short reads when loading executables.
20020523 dholland	Fix bug in tt3 test.
20020523 dholland	Some make/build fixes.
20020523 dholland	More mips calling conventions fixes.
20020522 dholland	Fix bug in new mips exception code.
20020522 dholland	Revamp testbin/badcall.
20020515 dholland	Various accumulated minor cleanups and fixes.
20020515 dholland	New tests: dirconc, parallelvm.
20020515 dholland	Add missing V() in lhd driver.
20020515 dholland	Fixes for the thread code.
20020515 dholland	Tweak mips exception code for gdb's benefit.
20020515 dholland	Clean up dumbvm code.
20020515 dholland	Initialize mips stacks better, for gdb's benefit.
20020425 dholland	Fixes for testbin/f_test.
20020424 dholland	Fix kmalloc bug (found by Richard Eisenberg).
20020424 dholland	Fix incorrect error codes in testbin/badcall.
20020424 dholland	Move stray assert in vfs code.
20020407 dholland	Fix off-by-one error in lhd driver.
20020325 dholland	Fix memory leak in malloctest.
20020318 dholland	Patch for race in thread_exit (fixed properly 5/15).
20020305 dholland	Fix spl leak on thread_fork failure.
20020305 dholland	Fix for testbin/crash.

20020216 dholland	OS/161 1.04 released.
20020216 dholland	Fix warning in kmalloc debugging code.
20020216 dholland	Adjust testbin/badcall to assignment 2 requirements.
20020215 dholland	Add cpu_halt() to supplement cpu_idle(), to fix crash.
20020215 dholland	Fixes for matmult.
20020215 dholland	Fix garbled comment in vm.h.
20020215 dholland	Fix prototype of _exit().
20020208 dholland	Fix stack frame of mips __start for gdb's benefit.
20020208 dholland	Fix queue bug.
20020208 dholland	Fix bug in testbin/{badcall,crash,faulter}.

20020131 dholland	OS/161 1.03 released.
20020131 dholland	Yield more on thread start (OPT_ASST1PROBS only).
20020131 dholland	Fix whalemating code to match assignment.
20020131 dholland	New asst1 problems for 2002.
20020131 dholland	Include fix in mips pcb.h.
20020130 fedorova	Adjust tt3 iteration counts/sizes.
20020129 georgi 	Fix broken mksfs and dumpsfs build.
20020124 dholland	Put time() in libc; add __time() syscall.
20020124 dholland	Have hostcompat make stdout and stderr unbuffered.
20020124 dholland	Add sample optimizing config (ASST2-OPT).
20020124 dholland	New tests: dirseek, rmdirtest, triplemat.
20020123 dholland	Move matmult2 over original matmult.
20020123 dholland	Assert nobody's waiting when destroying a semaphore.
20020123 dholland	Add driver for new ltrace device.
20020123 dholland	Fix cosmetic bug in hardclock config.
20020121 dholland	Support ls over emufs.
20020121 dholland	Fix bug in copyinstr/copyoutstr code.
20020121 dholland	Fix broken Linux build of libhostcompat.
20020119 dholland	Alter dumbvm and loadelf for new toolchain.
20020117 dholland	Check for stack overflow during context switch.
20020117 dholland	Stop using -O2 with -g for mips.
20020117 dholland	More mips calling conventions fixes.
20020117 dholland	Correct the inline asm in spl.c.
20020117 dholland	Remove machine/inlineasm.h; fold into spl.c.
20020117 dholland	Avoid using default make-supplied CFLAGS.
20020117 dholland	Fix use of libhostcompat in mksfs and dumpsfs.
20020117 dholland	Fix cosmetic bug in configure script.
20020116 dholland	Adjust various things for new toolchain.
20020110 dholland	Install hostcompat includes properly.
20020110 dholland	Various fixes for new gcc (3.0.3) and binutils.
20020104 dholland	More man pages.
20020103 dholland	Remove excess register saves from mips context switch.
20020103 dholland	Move old getcwd to __getcwd; put POSIX getcwd in libc.
20020103 dholland	Tinker with tt3 test.
20020102 dholland	Change thread_fork so it can return errors.
20020102 dholland	Preallocate various things to avoid dying in mi_switch.
20010925 dholland	Add a bunch of consistency checks to sfs.
20010925 dholland	Fix bug in new panic code.
20010925 dholland	Add menu command to panic intentionally.
20010925 dholland	Fix bug in emufs.
20010925 dholland	memcpy by words instead of bytes when properly aligned.
20010925 dholland	Use setjmp() and longjmp() for aborting copyin/copyout.
20010925 dholland	Add code for setjmp() and longjmp().
20010921 dholland	Add VOP_KILL (undoes VOP_INIT, which can now fail too.)
20010921 dholland	Fix race conditions in vnode reclaim.
20010921 dholland	Fix VFS behavior for things like "rmdir foo:".

20010921 dholland	OS/161 1.02 released.
20010921 dholland	Revise device config/attach code.
20010920 dholland	Standards compliance fixes for strchr/strrchr.
20010920 dholland	Fix bug in system().
20010919 dholland	More man pages.
20010918 dholland	Changed MAXNAMLEN to NAME_MAX.
20010918 dholland	Fix bug in kernel menu pwd command.
20010918 dholland	Panic handling improvements.
20010918 dholland	Kernel bootup and shutdown cleanup.
20010918 dholland	Fixes for testbin/badcall.
20010824 dholland	Make config script probe for <err.h>.
20010821 dholland	Changes to queue code for consistent naming.
20010808 dholland	Add man pages.
20010808 dholland	The shell can now use <err.h> again, so do so.
20010808 dholland	Add explicit support for host-runnable programs.
20010807 dholland	Clean up -nostdinc/-nostdlib handling.
20010807 dholland	Fix bug in cp.
20010807 dholland	New test in testbin/crash.
20010807 dholland	Fixes for testbin/malloctest.
20010806 dholland	Fix glitch in testbin/badcall.
20010806 dholland	New test: randcall.
20010804 dholland	Add missing strrchr proto to <string.h>.
20010803 dholland	Clean up ls; among other things, fix ls -R.
20010803 dholland	Fixes for testbin/badcall.
20010803 dholland	Add memset() to libc.
20010803 dholland	Split part of testbin/crash to new testbin/badcall.
20010802 dholland	Add comments to testbin describing intended uses.
20010802 dholland	Fix testbin/ctest to be large enough to be interesting.
20010802 dholland	Fix testbin/sort to be quicksort instead of bubble.
20010802 dholland	Various minor testbin fixes/cleanup.
20010802 dholland	Add dummy <fcntl.h> to make porting easier.
20010802 dholland	Add dummy <time.h> to make porting easier.
20010802 dholland	Add dummy <sys/ioctl.h> to make porting easier.
20010802 dholland	Add dummy <sys/reboot.h> to make porting easier.
20010802 dholland	Add dummy <sys/wait.h> to make porting easier.
20010802 dholland	Have kfree deadbeef out free blocks.
20010801 dholland	Time execution of every kernel menu command.
20010801 dholland	Add getinterval() function for subtracting times.
20010801 dholland	Print commands as they execute from the command string.
20010801 dholland	New test tt3; add atoi from libc to kernel build.
20010801 dholland	Add memcpy from libc.
20010801 dholland	Fix size_t and add memcpy() to libc.
20010801 dholland	Reset mips TLB at boot time.
20010801 dholland	Revise kernel menu layout.
20010801 dholland	Add tests for arrays, bitmaps, queues, and semaphores.
20010801 dholland	Add "reconfig" rule to kernel makefiles.
20010801 dholland	Fix queue code.
20010731 dholland	Move main.c from kern/thread to kern/main.
20010730 dholland	Add kernel menu command to unmount things.
20010730 dholland	Add vfs_unmountall() for shutdown time.
20010730 dholland	Report mounts to the console as they happen.
20010730 dholland	Abolish pointless kernel shutdown functions.
20010726 dholland	Add random: device accessible through VFS.
20010726 dholland	Add pseudorand device for when hardware is missing.
20010726 dholland	Add config support for pseudo-devices.
20010724 dholland	Yield randomly at thread start if OPT_ASST1PROBS set.
20010724 dholland	Clarify comments in mips exception.S.
20010724 dholland	Don't allow calling P() from an interrupt handler.
20010724 dholland	Fixes for lser driver.
20010723 dholland	More mips calling conventions fixes.
20010626 dholland	Add pwd and sync to kernel menu.
20010626 dholland	Massive changes to kernel menu UI.
20010619 dholland	Change as_copy so it can return error codes.
20010619 dholland	Merge bitmap_isset() from sol3.
20010619 dholland	Various fixes for new dumbvm.
20010619 dholland	Fix overly enthusiastic test in vnode_check().
20010619 dholland	Provide a sketch of the skeleton for doing fork.
20010618 dholland	Add asserts to synch code.
20010618 dholland	Clean up/clarify syscall entry code.
20010618 dholland	New dumbvm supporting multiple address spaces.
20010618 dholland	Remove mips dependencies from loadelf.c.
20010618 dholland	Add hacks to prevent looping "Unknown syscall -1".
20010615 dholland	Merge the kmalloc and kfree from sol3.
20010614 dholland	Move kernel menu stuff to its own file.
20010614 dholland	Fixes for sfs and vfs layer.
20010612 dholland	Add sfs_rwblock to encapsulate sfs_device->d_io().
20010612 dholland	Add lbolt and clocksleep() functionality to kernel.
20010612 dholland	Add -W to standard warning options.
20010611 dholland	Abolish rcsids.
20010611 dholland	Fix memory leak on error in thread_fork.
20010611 dholland	Don't panic if kmalloc fails. Add checks.
20010611 dholland	Add VOP_MAGIC to vnode ops tables, and lots of checks.
20010611 dholland	Add array_setguy().
20010608 dholland	Add random() and srandom() to libc.
20010608 dholland	Add some framework for user-level malloc to libc.
20010608 dholland	Correct prototypes for read() and write().
20010608 dholland	kprintf synchronization cleanups.
20010523 dholland	Allow DEL as well as BS for backspacing in shell.
20010523 dholland	Add warning about the consequences of touching paddr 0.
20010523 dholland	Fix open count handling on VOP_CLOSE error.
20010523 dholland	New test: malloctest.
20010428 dholland	Handle multiple leading slashes on pathnames.
20010423 dholland	Fix deadlock in vfs layer.
20010423 dholland	Fix bug in testbin/dirtest.
20010423 dholland	Fix multiple bugs in ls.
20010422 dholland	Fix bug in sfs.
20010419 dholland	Fix bug in sfs (patch from Amos Blackman).
20010416 dholland	Fix fstest code.
20010416 dholland	Remove stray debug output from dumpsfs.
20010414 dholland	Fix host mksfs/dumpsfs build on DU.
20010414 dholland	Makefile fix: build mksfs and dumpsfs by default.
20010414 dholland	Fix bug in sfs (found by Dafina Toncheva).
20010414 dholland	Fix endianness bug in dumpsfs.
20010414 dholland	Do a sync at shutdown time.
20010414 dholland	Format depend.mk files consistently.
20010414 dholland	Fix memory leak in sfs.
20010413 dholland	Allow VOP_FSYNC on sfs directories.
20010412 dholland	Detect infinite loop triggerable by uio misuse.
20010411 dholland	Fix bug in bitmap code.
20010406 dholland	Fix calling conventions in mips asm code.
20010323 dholland	Fix multi-sector lhd I/Os (found by Jeff DeSoto).
20010322 dholland	Fix bug in comment in pcb.c (found by Jeffrey Enos).
20010319 dholland	Make matmult smaller.
20010318 moorthi	Fix bug in array code.
20010314 dholland	Fix bug in mv (found by Edward Lim).
20010314 dholland	Fix bug in testbin/crash (found by Mike Vernal).
20010314 dholland	Fix bug in bitmap code.
20010308 moorthi	Fix bug in sfs.

20010226 dholland	OS/161 1.01 released.
20010226 dholland	Shell fixes.
20010226 dholland	Add a lock to the console device.
20010226 dholland	Fix another bug in copyin/copyout code.
20010226 dholland	Add vfs_getdevname().
20010226 dholland	Use device name for FSes that don't return a volname.
20010226 dholland	Fix two bugs in pwd.
20010226 dholland	Make /bin/pwd work in emufs.
20010225 dholland	Fix bug in mips trap code.
20010225 dholland	Fix bug in mips copyin/copyout code.
20010224 dholland	Add appropriate volatile keywords in various places.
20010224 dholland	Fix synchronization in placeholder kmalloc.
20010221 dholland	Fix bug in CV code.

20010208 dholland	OS/161 1.00 released.
20010208 dholland	Add EBADF to error list.
20010208 dholland	Fix specification of VOP_STAT.
20010208 blackman	Fix naming of queue functions.
20010208 blackman	Driver for lrandom device.
20010207 dholland	Check all calls to thread_fork for failure.
20010206 dholland	Fix comment in mips/specialreg.h.
20010205 dholland	Prevent recursive scheduler calls. (Fixes crash.)
20010205 dholland	Make syscall wrapper generation more robust.
20010205 dholland	Fix bug in cp.

20010202 dholland	OS/161 0.99 released.
20010202 dholland	Add host-sh (host-runnable version) to sh makefile.
20010202 dholland	Add licensing boilerplate.
20010201 dholland	Switch from getfilesize() to fstat().
20010201 dholland	Add system().
20010130 dholland	Add strtok() and strtok_r().
20010129 dholland	Add ELF code.
20010111 dholland	Fix bug in ls.
20010103 dholland	Initial checkin of development tree.