Dr. Schaller Information Technology Research Institute Munich, Germany (DSITRI)

Changes

mac06-0.95

• kernel/drivers
• /dev/serial completed and made working
• generic character device driver started
• resover kernel calls made non-blocking
• socket calls made running
• connect() and accept() made non-blocking
• improved signal handling
• /proc/stat added
• utime() made running
• rmdir() added
• fopen(... "r+") made working
• libraries
• malloc() improved
• a bug in scanf() found
• libxt.a (small X-Tooklit work-alike) and libPt.a (Protocol toolkit) added
• commands
• a bug in cal command fixed (did not recognize command line errors)
• shutdown modified to send SIGUSR2 to /bin/daemon/initd
• telnet & dial merged and made running
• tar made running
• /bin/register application added
• mkdir -r added
• uuencode and undecode made running
• others
• portscan (contribution by Erik Winkler) made running

mac06-0.94

• /bin/config created
• kernel/libraries
• times() made working partially
• UCODE made more complete (full floating point support)
• allocate memory for UCODE
• ps -l prints more information (signals)
• sh:
• time cmd made working
• c89/as:
• #if defined() etc. added (expression evaluation incomplete)
• allocation of auto variables
• float and double constants and variables
• cast to/from int, float, unsigned etc. made complete
• assembler directives .end, .abort added
• don't write object file if compilation is aborted by error
• handle functions that return structs

mac06-0.93

• c89 made running (ucode generator only)
• as -m m680x0/PPC/Z80/ucode continued
• mk now knows format of archive files
• bad screen formatting of more fixed
• /bin/daemon/initd process added
• telnet and dial clients merged
• /dev/serial added
• gettimeofday() and gethostby...() moved into the kernel
• incompatible typedef time_t resolved (utime.h, time.h, sys/times.h)
• made (again) running on 680x0 Macs (using fat binaries)

mac06-0.92

• added Menu to fork new shell
• Quit made working
• rm will now remove and rename files to the trash
• ar and mk made running
• fseek(), ftell(): some bugs found
• printf() formats made more general and more compliant
• scanf(), ungetc() implemented

mac06-0.9

• real parallel multitasking
• sleep(), pause(), select() added and made working
• telnet, ftp, mail, nslookup clients added
• /etc/passwd, /etc/group added
• stty
• more, fgrep, find, ... commands
• improved terminal window manager with generation of signals (ctl-C, alt-. etc.)
• socket library made compiling
• getpwXXX(), getgrXXX() functions implemented, grp.h and pwd.h added
• /bin/daemon/ added for ftpd, telnetd, maild etc.
• pipes added
• experimental version of c89, ld, as, coff2pef included
• and as before: many additional bugs traced and removed (-: and new added :-)

mac06-0.8

• many additional bugs removed
• #include header files revised
• chmod(), chown(), utime() added
• mkdir(), rmdir() added; mkdir working
• strerr(), perror(), message catalog added
• signal handling improved
• made running on 680x0 macs (using fat binaries)
• resolve Finder aliases
• cp, chmod, mkdir, rm etc. added
• cp now copies about 60kbyte/s
• shell file name pattern expansion (*.* etc.) added
• shell now exports environment
• running multiple instances of the same executable permitted
• shell made more POSIX.2 compatible (at least calling conventions -s -c etc.)
• shell script invocation added
• setting of shell variables improved
• mk extended and made running
• universal virtual processor (u-code) prepared in the kernel
• c89, as, ld development system for 'u-code' prepared

mac06-0.7

• header files made mostly POSIX compatible
• time functions added
• sh: file redirection
• sh: variables
• /vol file system added
• /proc file system added
• kernel: creat, write for HFS made running
• mk made running
• many smaller and some larger bugs found

mac06-0.6

• kernel made running
• file system added
• shell and applications greatly extended
• new name

minux-0.5

• changed to use Apple Events for system calls
• switched to C

minux-0.1

• initial version (written in C++)