Hoppix-an implementation of a Unix server on a persistent operating system

Author

Bem, Eva Z. ; Lindström, Anders ; Norris, Stephen ; Rosenberg, John

Author_Institution

Basser Dept. of Comput. Sci., Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia

fYear

1996

fDate

27-28 Oct 1996

Firstpage

112

Lastpage

116

Abstract

Hoppix-the Unix server on the Grasshopper operating system is being implemented to provide a familiar environment for research and experimentation in persistence. The server is constructed using the basic Grasshopper abstractions: containers, loci, capabilities, container invocations and locus private mappings. The above abstractions enable a full implementation of a POSIX compliant interface at the user-level without compromising security and protection. The paper discusses specific issues related to creation of the Unix address space and the Unix file system, and implementation of fork and exec system calls

Keywords

Unix; network operating systems; network servers; storage management; Grasshopper operating system; Hoppix; POSIX compliant interface; Unix server; capabilities; container invocations; containers; exec system calls; fork; loci; locus private mappings; persistent operating system; Containers; File systems; Operating systems; Protection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Object-Orientation in Operating Systems, 1996., Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

1063-5351

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7692-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWOOOS.1996.557894

Filename

557894