Compared to the previous version, v0.16, there are a couple of minor
changes:
- CLOUDABI_AT_PID: Process identifiers for CloudABI processes.
Initially, BSD process identifiers weren't exposed inside the runtime,
due to them being pretty much useless inside of a cluster computing
environment. When jobs are scheduled across systems, the BSD process
number doesn't act as an identifier. Even on individual systems they
may recycle relatively quickly.
With this change, the kernel will now generate a UUIDv4 when executing
a process. These UUIDs can be obtained within the process using
program_getpid(). Right now, FreeBSD will not attempt to store this
value. This should of course happen at some point in time, so that it
may be printed by administration tools.
- Removal of some unused structure members for polling.
With the polling framework being simplified/redesigned, it turns out
some of the structure fields were not used by the C library. We can
remove these to keep things nice and tidy.
Obtained from: https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi
e31f084c58