The CloudABI specification has had some minor changes over the last half
year. No substantial features have been added, but some features that
are deemed unnecessary in retrospect have been removed:
- mlock()/munlock():
These calls tend to be used for two different purposes: real-time
support and handling of sensitive (cryptographic) material that
shouldn't end up in swap. The former use case is out of scope for
CloudABI. The latter may also be handled by encrypting swap.
Removing this has the advantage that we no longer need to worry about
having resource limits put in place.
- SOCK_SEQPACKET:
Support for SOCK_SEQPACKET is rather inconsistent across various
operating systems. Some operating systems supported by CloudABI (e.g.,
macOS) don't support it at all. Considering that they are rarely used,
remove support for the time being.
- getsockname(), getpeername(), etc.:
A shortcoming of the sockets API is that it doesn't allow you to
create socket(pair)s, having fake socket addresses associated with
them. This makes it harder to test applications or transparently
forward (proxy) connections to them.
With CloudABI, we're slowly moving networking connectivity into a
separate daemon called Flower. In addition to passing around socket
file descriptors, this daemon provides address information in the form
of arbitrary string labels. There is thus no longer any need for
requesting socket address information from the kernel itself.
This change also updates consumers of the generated code accordingly.
Even though system calls end up getting renumbered, this won't cause any
problems in practice. CloudABI programs always call into the kernel
through a kernel-supplied vDSO that has the numbers updated as well.
Obtained from: https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi
Similar to the change for sendmsg(), create a pointer size independent
implementation of recvmsg() and let cloudabi32 and cloudabi64 call into
it. In case userspace requests one or more file descriptors, call
kern_recvit() in such a way that we get the control message headers in
an mbuf. Iterate over all of the headers and copy the file descriptors
to userspace.
Reduce the potential amount of code duplication between cloudabi32 and
cloudabi64 by creating a cloudabi_sock_recv() utility function. The
cloudabi32 and cloudabi64 modules will then only contain code to convert
the iovecs to the native pointer size.
In cloudabi_sock_recv(), we can now construct an SCM_RIGHTS cmsghdr in
an mbuf and pass that on to kern_sendit().
Essentially, this is a literal copy of the code in sys/compat/cloudabi64,
except that it now makes use of 32-bits datatypes and limits. In
sys/conf/files, we now need to take care to build the code in
sys/compat/cloudabi if either COMPAT_CLOUDABI32 or COMPAT_CLOUDABI64 is
turned on.
This change does not yet include any of the CPU dependent bits. Right
now I have implementations for running i386 binaries both on i386 and
x86-64, which I will send out for review separately.
