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Xv6 is the classic reroll of the UNIX 6th edition sources for the x86 architecture. What does Sortix offer that is lacking in Xv6? https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/
by chasil 9y ago
Xv6 is the classic reroll of the UNIX 6th edition sources for the x86 architecture.
What does Sortix offer that is lacking in Xv6?
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/xv6.html https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/xv6.html
- beefhash 9y agoSortix aims to be a "clean and modern POSIX implementation". POSIX mandates, say, ed[1]. Xv6 does not implement ed; it's absolutely spartan. [1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ed.html http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ed...
- temprature 9y agoFor starters, its own libc and a proper filesystem (the author wrote their own ext2 implementation).
- ronsor 9y agoTCP/IP support
- sortie 9y agoAuthor here. Yep, though the network stack hasn't yet been merged to the master branch (but that's next and it'll be in the next stable release).