> It's a bit disappointing that every time somebody decides to write their own kernel, the first thing they do is implement some subset of the POSIX spec.

Well, not quite _every_ time. For example, I’m deliberately not doing POSIX with my latest one[0], so I can be a bit more experimental.

[0] https://github.com/roscopeco/anos

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anyfoo 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Kudos for doing so! This is seriously a great endeavor. Regarding its relation to UNIX concepts, I do spot a classical hierarchical file system there, though. ;) Is it only an "add-on" (similar to IFS on IBM i), or is it fundamental?

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noone_youknow 4 days ago | parent [-]

Thank you!

At this early stage, the filesystem exists only to prove the disk drivers and the IPC interfaces connecting them. I chose FAT32 for this since there has to be a FAT partition anyway for UEFI.

The concept of the VFS may stick around as a useful thing, but it’s strictly for storage, there is no “everything is a file” ethos. It’s entirely a user space concept - the kernel knows nothing of virtual filesystems, files, or the underlying hardware like disks.

	▲	anyfoo 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		That makes sense.

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pjmlp 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Kudos for trying something else.