Because we use to pass a policy class to 'Native_capability_tpl'
we can pass the dst type as part of the policy instead of as
a separate template argument. This patch also adds documentation
of the POLICY interface as expected by 'Native_capability_tpl'.
This patch unifies the Native_capability classes for the different kernel
platforms by introducing an appropriate template, and eliminating naming
differences. Please refer issue #145.
Introduce a factory-, and dereference method for local capabilities. These are
capabilities that reference objects of services, which are known to be used
protection-domain internally only. To support the new Capability class methods
a protected constructor and accessor to the local object's pointer is needed
in the platform's capability base-classes. For further discussion details please
refer issue #139.
The 'Child' framework used to perform the transfer of session quota
using 'env()->ram_session()' as hard-wired reference account. When
locally virtualizing the RAM session supplied to the 'Child', this
policy does not work. When closing a session, core would try to transfer
session quota to the virtualized RAM service, which is of course not
possible. This patch makes the reference RAM session configable via the
'Child_policy' interface.
The new function 'Platform_env::reload_parent_cap' triggers a reload
of the parent capability and its respective resources. It is needed
during the bootstrap of a new process forked from an existing Noux
process.
Until now, the RPC framework did not support const RPC functions. Rather
than being a limitation inherent to the concept, const RPC functions
plainly did not exist. So supporting them was not deemed too important.
However, there are uses of RPC interfaces that would benefit from a way
to declare an RPC function as const. Candidates are functions like
'Framebuffer::Session::mode()' and 'Input::Session::is_pending()'.
This patch clears the way towards declaring such functions as const.
Even though the patch is simple enough, the thorough support for
const-qualified RPC functions would double the number of overloads for
the 'call_member' function template (in 'base/include/util/meta.h'). For
this reason, the patch does support const getter functions with no
arguments only. This appears to be the most common use of such
functions.
This patch implements the support needed to handle exceptions that occur
during the construction of objects dynamically allocated via the
'Allocator' interface. In this case, the compiler automatically invokes
a special delete operator that takes the allocator type (as supplied to
'new') as second argument. The implementation of this delete operator
has been added to the 'cxx' library. Because the operator delete is
called without the size of the object, we can use only those allocators
that ignore the size argument of the free function and print a warning
otherwise. The added 'Allocator::need_size_for_free()' function is used
to distinguish safe and unsafe allocators.
- Let hybrid Linux/Genode programs use POSIX threads for the
implementation of the Thread API.
- Prevent linkage of cxx library to hybrid Linux/Genode programs because
the cxx functionality is covered by glibc.
