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This is a very brain dead shell. It needs some love, coffee or perhaps beer.
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Currently, you can't even really call it a shell, its more of a CLI that
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offers some shell like creature comforts.
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This was written in a hurry to provide some means of testing persistent file
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systems in HelenOS. It does its job, its nowhere near complete but it is
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actively developed. If your reading this, its likely that you're looking for
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some functionality that is not yet present. Prior to filing a bug report,
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please make sure that what you want is not on the list below.
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A list of things to do:
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* rm: add support for recursively removing directories and files therein
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* Port an editor (vim?)
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* Finish cat / cp
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* Support basic redirection (i.e ls > foo.txt)
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* Expand wildcards (i.e. *.txt), don't worry about variables for now
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* Basic scripting
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* Hash previously found commands
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* Improve input, add history / etc (port libedit?)
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* Add wrappers for signal, sigaction to make ports to modules easier
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* Add 'echo' and 'printf' modules.
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Regarding POSIX:
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POSIX is a standard for Unix-like operating systems. HelenOS is (mostly) just
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a kernel at this point with a few userspace programs that facilitate testing
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of the kernel and file systems.
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HelenOS is not a Unix-like operating system. HelenOS is its own thing, a modern
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microkernel OS and many directions are not yet set.
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Please do not e-mail me to point out that modular implementations that resemble
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typical core utilities do not conform to some POSIX standard, these are temporary
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and serve the useful purpose of testing persistent file systems.
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Contributing:
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If you feel like doing any of the above to-do items, I am echo@echoreply.us. Please
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e-mail me and let me know your working on something so that I do not unwittingly
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duplicate your efforts. You can also e-mail the HelenOS list directly:
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HelenOS development mailing list <helenos-devel@lists.modry.cz>
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Subscribe here if you like: http://lists.modry.cz/cgi-bin/listinfo/helenos-devel
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Cheers and happy hacking!
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--Tim