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17 years agoDon't require distinguishing data and metadata for caching.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:58:10 +0000 (14:58 +0000)]
Don't require distinguishing data and metadata for caching.

Another suggestion for implementation order.

From Godmar.

17 years agoFix comment.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:24:48 +0000 (14:24 +0000)]
Fix comment.

17 years agoWhen printing a directory tree, indicate explicitly if it's empty.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:21:04 +0000 (14:21 +0000)]
When printing a directory tree, indicate explicitly if it's empty.

17 years agoParse command-line options much earlier, so that thread_mlfqs is
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:40:20 +0000 (20:40 +0000)]
Parse command-line options much earlier, so that thread_mlfqs is
initialized before thread_init() gets hold of it.

Also allow console output much earlier, by doing initialization
whenever we call into it first and by only trying to take the console
lock after threads have been initialized.

Don't try to take the console lock after the kernel panics, to avoid
getting nailed so hard by bugs in lock_acquire().

Suggested by Godmar Back.

17 years agoNew target to generate cscope.files.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 8 Dec 2006 23:40:23 +0000 (23:40 +0000)]
New target to generate cscope.files.

17 years agoMake it possible to ignore page faults in GDB.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 8 Dec 2006 18:47:37 +0000 (18:47 +0000)]
Make it possible to ignore page faults in GDB.
From su.class.cs140 and Godmar Back.

17 years agoRevert the bitmap randomization change, which had the side effect of
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:06:31 +0000 (16:06 +0000)]
Revert the bitmap randomization change, which had the side effect of
causing enough disk fragmentation for the base (extent-based) file
system that in some cases tests would fail.  Also, it confused the
hell out of everyone.  Failed experiment.

17 years agoClarify description to avoid unjustly nailing students.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:03:50 +0000 (16:03 +0000)]
Clarify description to avoid unjustly nailing students.
From Vincenzo Di Nicola <dinicola@stanford.edu>.

17 years agoFix lost thought.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:58:57 +0000 (15:58 +0000)]
Fix lost thought.
From Godmar Back.

17 years agoGrab hard disk statistics from submissions and put them in hdd.stats.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:52:37 +0000 (15:52 +0000)]
Grab hard disk statistics from submissions and put them in hdd.stats.

17 years agoWhen reading files out of the scratch disk, don't die with an error
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:39:32 +0000 (15:39 +0000)]
When reading files out of the scratch disk, don't die with an error
exit code if there's a bad signature, because that's a guest error not
a host error.  (If we do exit with an error code, it fouls up the
grading process.)  Instead, just make sure that the host file(s) we
were supposed to retrieve is unlinked.

17 years agoFix error message when archive fails to open.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:29:58 +0000 (15:29 +0000)]
Fix error message when archive fails to open.

17 years agoExplain that multiple file descriptors for a single file are
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:58:02 +0000 (14:58 +0000)]
Explain that multiple file descriptors for a single file are
independent.
From Godmar Back.

17 years agoNote that struct file, struct dir are per-thread.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:52:37 +0000 (14:52 +0000)]
Note that struct file, struct dir are per-thread.
From Godmar Back.

17 years agoAdd Project 4 Suggested Order of Implementation section,
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:48:20 +0000 (14:48 +0000)]
Add Project 4 Suggested Order of Implementation section,
from slides written by Godmar Back.

17 years agoExplain better what we expect from the buffer cache.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:35:09 +0000 (14:35 +0000)]
Explain better what we expect from the buffer cache.

17 years agoUse mkdir, not create.
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 4 Dec 2006 19:14:26 +0000 (19:14 +0000)]
Use mkdir, not create.
Thanks to "Yuriy" for reporting this bug.

18 years agoClarify condition on BUF_SIZE in monitor example.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:04:33 +0000 (13:04 +0000)]
Clarify condition on BUF_SIZE in monitor example.
Thanks to Terje Mathiesen for pointing out this issue.

18 years agoAdd comment.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:44:42 +0000 (14:44 +0000)]
Add comment.

18 years agoDrop use of volatile in favor of explicit memory barriers.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:43:15 +0000 (14:43 +0000)]
Drop use of volatile in favor of explicit memory barriers.
Document this use of barriers.

18 years agoAlso verify that running "make clean" deletes all the files in the
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:41:59 +0000 (14:41 +0000)]
Also verify that running "make clean" deletes all the files in the
build directory except for the Makefile itself.

18 years agoClean tests/vm/zeros.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:30:18 +0000 (14:30 +0000)]
Clean tests/vm/zeros.

18 years agoAdopt consistent style in asm statements.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:29:14 +0000 (14:29 +0000)]
Adopt consistent style in asm statements.

18 years agoAdd memory clobbers to several asm statements,
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:25:16 +0000 (14:25 +0000)]
Add memory clobbers to several asm statements,
to prevent reordering.

18 years agoMake sure loops_per_tick doesn't overflow to zero.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:19:40 +0000 (14:19 +0000)]
Make sure loops_per_tick doesn't overflow to zero.

18 years agoAlso clean results, grade.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:53:21 +0000 (16:53 +0000)]
Also clean results, grade.

18 years agoAdd "memory" as clobber to the asm used by barrier().
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:51:03 +0000 (15:51 +0000)]
Add "memory" as clobber to the asm used by barrier().
Otherwise at least some versions of GCC assume that no changes to
memory can take place.

18 years agoAlso clean bochsout.txt, bochsrc.txt.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:31:18 +0000 (15:31 +0000)]
Also clean bochsout.txt, bochsrc.txt.

18 years agoMinor style updates.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:06:15 +0000 (15:06 +0000)]
Minor style updates.

18 years agoRewrite of multi-oom. Now descends 10 times and expects to reach the same
Godmar Back [Fri, 10 Nov 2006 04:36:14 +0000 (04:36 +0000)]
Rewrite of multi-oom.  Now descends 10 times and expects to reach the same
depth every time.  In addition, fires off some children that consume resources
and then crash.  Much more difficult than before.

18 years ago- when ignoring exit codes, ignore exit(-1) also (previously didn't allow '-')
Godmar Back [Fri, 10 Nov 2006 04:34:20 +0000 (04:34 +0000)]
- when ignoring exit codes, ignore exit(-1) also (previously didn't allow '-')

18 years agofixed memory leak on error path in copy_in_string
Godmar Back [Fri, 10 Nov 2006 04:17:53 +0000 (04:17 +0000)]
fixed memory leak on error path in copy_in_string

18 years agomake loop counter volatile to prevent gcc4.1 from optimizing away entire loop body
Godmar Back [Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:20:08 +0000 (02:20 +0000)]
make loop counter volatile to prevent gcc4.1 from optimizing away entire loop body

18 years agoadded accidentally omitted $ to make operand immediate
Godmar Back [Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:18:07 +0000 (02:18 +0000)]
added accidentally omitted $ to make operand immediate

18 years agoclarify use of timer_sleep or acceptable alternatives for implementing
Godmar Back [Sat, 4 Nov 2006 20:08:27 +0000 (20:08 +0000)]
clarify use of timer_sleep or acceptable alternatives for implementing
write-behind cache flushing.

18 years agoClarify purpose and rationale.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 3 Nov 2006 03:07:56 +0000 (03:07 +0000)]
Clarify purpose and rationale.
From Godmar Back.

18 years agoRemove O_EXCL from flags used to create files to be copied out of a
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 3 Nov 2006 02:54:48 +0000 (02:54 +0000)]
Remove O_EXCL from flags used to create files to be copied out of a
Pintos scratch disk, in get_scratch_file.
Thanks to Godmar Back for pointing out the problem.

18 years agoDelete .tar, .get-output, and .get-errors files on "clean" target.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 3 Nov 2006 02:50:36 +0000 (02:50 +0000)]
Delete .tar, .get-output, and .get-errors files on "clean" target.
Thanks to Godmar Back for pointing out the problem.

18 years agoadded IGNORE_USER_FAULTS flag - so students may report failed stack growth
Godmar Back [Wed, 1 Nov 2006 21:20:52 +0000 (21:20 +0000)]
added IGNORE_USER_FAULTS flag - so students may report failed stack growth

18 years agocorrected wrong statement about content of f->esp when page fault
Godmar Back [Wed, 1 Nov 2006 00:00:42 +0000 (00:00 +0000)]
corrected wrong statement about content of f->esp when page fault
occurs in kernel mode.  See [IA32-v3a], figure 5.4 in section 5.12.1.1.

18 years agoImprove comment.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 7 Oct 2006 19:01:09 +0000 (19:01 +0000)]
Improve comment.

18 years agoSleep until recent_cpu actually decays.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 5 Oct 2006 03:07:31 +0000 (03:07 +0000)]
Sleep until recent_cpu actually decays.

18 years agoAdd hints about not doing too much work in timer interrupt.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 5 Oct 2006 03:05:40 +0000 (03:05 +0000)]
Add hints about not doing too much work in timer interrupt.

18 years ago*** empty log message ***
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 5 Oct 2006 03:04:36 +0000 (03:04 +0000)]
*** empty log message ***

18 years agoFix message.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 5 Oct 2006 02:20:10 +0000 (02:20 +0000)]
Fix message.
From Godmar Back.

18 years agoWhen out of memory+swap, just panic the kernel.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 5 Oct 2006 01:25:38 +0000 (01:25 +0000)]
When out of memory+swap, just panic the kernel.

18 years agoAdd -O to CFLAGS to try to catch uninitialized variable errors.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 5 Oct 2006 01:14:14 +0000 (01:14 +0000)]
Add -O to CFLAGS to try to catch uninitialized variable errors.

18 years agoMake Pintos able to build with "gcc -m32" on x86-64 hosts without the
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 5 Oct 2006 00:44:09 +0000 (00:44 +0000)]
Make Pintos able to build with "gcc -m32" on x86-64 hosts without the
need for the host to have any 32-bit libraries (specifically, without
needing libgcc).

18 years agoFix logarithms.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 3 Oct 2006 09:41:00 +0000 (09:41 +0000)]
Fix logarithms.
Thanks to Haobo Xu <haoboxu@stanford.edu>.

18 years agoIrq 7 is special. It is not just the parallel port. It can also be a
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:45:27 +0000 (17:45 +0000)]
Irq 7 is special.  It is not just the parallel port.  It can also be a
"spurious" irq, one that is not associated with any particular device.
Real hardware can generate spurious irqs for various reasons (try
Google for details), but it never occurred to me that simulated
hardware would ever do so.

However, it can, at least under Bochs.  Pintos programs the PIT to
interrupt at 100 Hz.  The PIT does so by generating a output signal
that stays high most of the time but drops low for a single clock
cycle 100 times per second.  The low-to-high transition causes the
timer interrupt.

The problem occurs when we've been doing work with interrupts
disabled, causing a timer interrupt to be delayed.  If we enable
interrupts on the same clock cycle as the PIT's high-to-low
transition, we will still get an interrupt, because the interrupt
controller latched the presence of an interrupt.  However, when the
CPU attempts to determine the irq number, the interrupt controller
sees that all of its incoming interrupt lines are low.  Thus, it
reports irq 7 to the CPU, and we end up with an interrupt 0x27.

It doesn't happen very often, because there's only a 1-cycle window,
and it requires that we do a good deal of work with interrupts off,
and it can only happen if no other interrupts (e.g. serial) are
pending.  But it's darned annoying when it happens.

Here's a filtered excerpt from a Bochs log with debugging enabled
where you can see the problem.  The first interrupt (32 or 0x20) is
properly a timer interrupt, because irq line 0 is high.  The second
interrupt (39 or 0x27) is the spurious one; you can see that irq line
0 went low on the same cycle.

00080033515d[PIC  ] IRQ line 4 now low
00080033827d[PIC  ] IRQ line 4 now high
00080033970d[PIC  ] IRQ line 0 now low
00080033971d[PIC  ] IRQ line 0 now high
00080033989d[PIC  ] IRQ line 4 now low
00080034068d[CPU  ] interrupt(): vector = 32, INT = 0, EXT = 1
00080043970d[PIC  ] IRQ line 0 now low
00080043971d[PIC  ] IRQ line 0 now high
00080053971d[PIC  ] IRQ line 0 now low
00080053971d[PIC  ] IRQ line 0 now high
00080063971d[PIC  ] IRQ line 0 now low
00080063972d[PIC  ] IRQ line 0 now high
00080073971d[PIC  ] IRQ line 0 now low
00080073972d[PIC  ] IRQ line 0 now high
00080083971d[PIC  ] IRQ line 0 now low
00080083971d[CPU  ] interrupt(): vector = 39, INT = 0, EXT = 1
00080083972d[PIC  ] IRQ line 0 now high
00080084538d[PIC  ] IRQ line 4 now high

This change causes irqs 7 and 15 (0x27 and 0x2f) to be ignored when no
handler is provided.

Problem reported by Godmar Back.

18 years agoUpdate.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:11:52 +0000 (13:11 +0000)]
Update.

18 years agoMinor doc improvements.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:59:05 +0000 (12:59 +0000)]
Minor doc improvements.
From Godmar Back.

18 years agoMake list_entry, hash_entry more type-safe.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:36:41 +0000 (12:36 +0000)]
Make list_entry, hash_entry more type-safe.
Suggestion from Godmar Back.

18 years agoFix confusing spacing in example
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:15:11 +0000 (12:15 +0000)]
Fix confusing spacing in example

18 years agoMake solutions apply again.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:15:37 +0000 (20:15 +0000)]
Make solutions apply again.

18 years agoCreate idle thread with minimum priority.
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:12:05 +0000 (15:12 +0000)]
Create idle thread with minimum priority.
Suggested by Godmar Back.

18 years agoChange "Memory Barriers" to "Optimization Barriers".
Ben Pfaff [Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:59:41 +0000 (14:59 +0000)]
Change "Memory Barriers" to "Optimization Barriers".
Thanks to Joshua Haberman for pointing out the issue.

18 years agoMove assignment to _end_kernel_text inside .rodata.
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:43:09 +0000 (21:43 +0000)]
Move assignment to _end_kernel_text inside .rodata.

Without this change, any orphan, read-only sections (such as .eh_frame
from libgcc) will be placed by GNU ld between .rodata and
_end_kernel_text.  The result is that _end_kernel_text gets pushed
into the middle of a page that now contains some read-only and some
read/write data.  After paging_init() marks that page read-only, the
first write to it (in intr_init() in my case) causes Pintos to go
ka-boom!

With this change, orphan read-only sections just don't get marked
read-only in the page tables.  Big deal.

18 years agoFix two bugs in the base Pintos code:
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:26:35 +0000 (20:26 +0000)]
Fix two bugs in the base Pintos code:

1. Idle thread doesn't get initialized well: it hangs around on the
   ready list until we have idle time.  Fix by using a semaphore to
   make sure the idle thread gets initialized.

2. After idle thread does get initialized, it can get put back on the
   ready list if you yield from the timer interrupt.  Fix by not ever
   putting the idle thread on the ready list.

Plus fix a bug in the sample solution that tends to mask #2:

3. Doesn't yield from timer interrupt when unblocking a thread.  Fix
   by yielding from timer interrupt when unblocking a thread (of
   higher priority).

Also, fix something that confused students:

4. Rename enable_mlfqs to thread_mlfqs and move it to thread.c (to
   reduce confusion about where it is declared), and heavily comment
   to ensure that students know when it gets initialized.

These problems were drawn to my attention by Godmar Back.  Thanks!

18 years agofixed left-over, now-wrong comment about how decrease in numeric priority means incre...
Godmar Back [Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:40:40 +0000 (11:40 +0000)]
fixed left-over, now-wrong comment about how decrease in numeric priority means increase in effective priority

18 years agofixed typo in wrong iterator example
Godmar Back [Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:32:27 +0000 (02:32 +0000)]
fixed typo in wrong iterator example

18 years agoFix issue reported by Godmar Back:
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 9 Sep 2006 16:53:56 +0000 (16:53 +0000)]
Fix issue reported by Godmar Back:

    I may have found a problem with the triple fault patch, though I don't
    know how to solve it.
    If you add a *(int *)0=42 right after paging_init(), but before
    intr_init(), gdb will just hang:

...

    where it hangs while Pintos prints:

    Triple fault: stopping for gdb
    Triple fault: stopping for gdb
    Triple fault: stopping for gdb
    Triple fault: stopping for gdb
    Triple fault: stopping for gdb
    Triple fault: stopping for gdb
    Triple fault: stopping for gdb
    Triple fault: stopping for gdb
    Triple fault: stopping for gdb
    Triple fault: stopping for gdb
    Triple fault: stopping for gdb
    etc.

    It stops properly if I don't next-step (that is, if I just let it run.)

18 years agoConvert tabs to spaces to make cut-and-paste to interactive shell
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 9 Sep 2006 16:52:39 +0000 (16:52 +0000)]
Convert tabs to spaces to make cut-and-paste to interactive shell
work.

18 years agoMake kernel code pages read-only.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 8 Sep 2006 00:51:17 +0000 (00:51 +0000)]
Make kernel code pages read-only.
From Godmar Back, with changes.

18 years agoClarify summary section.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 8 Sep 2006 00:50:31 +0000 (00:50 +0000)]
Clarify summary section.

18 years agoGet rid of exit_code in struct thread.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 8 Sep 2006 00:50:02 +0000 (00:50 +0000)]
Get rid of exit_code in struct thread.

18 years agoAdd:
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:50:41 +0000 (20:50 +0000)]
Add:

* In grading scripts, warn when a fault is caused by an attempt to
  write to the kernel text segment.  (Among other things we need to
  explain that "text" means "code".)

18 years agoChange several "die"s to "fail"s in read_tar.
Ben Pfaff [Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:38:16 +0000 (21:38 +0000)]
Change several "die"s to "fail"s in read_tar.
Reported by Haobo Xu <haoboxu@stanford.edu>.

18 years agoFirst complete draft.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:09:01 +0000 (22:09 +0000)]
First complete draft.

18 years agoContinue work.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:11:14 +0000 (21:11 +0000)]
Continue work.

18 years agoB5: Include "open by a process" as a reason to disallow removing a
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:48:47 +0000 (16:48 +0000)]
B5: Include "open by a process" as a reason to disallow removing a
directory.

18 years agoContinue work.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:16:42 +0000 (04:16 +0000)]
Continue work.

18 years agoFirst draft (incomplete).
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:36:44 +0000 (22:36 +0000)]
First draft (incomplete).

18 years agoMinor wording improvement.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:27:07 +0000 (18:27 +0000)]
Minor wording improvement.

18 years agoA2: We want to see the work in the calculation, not just the final
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:23:38 +0000 (17:23 +0000)]
A2: We want to see the work in the calculation, not just the final
result.

18 years agoMay also consult course staff.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:09:14 +0000 (17:09 +0000)]
May also consult course staff.

18 years agomake_tar_archive() needs to initialize `success'.
Ben Pfaff [Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:47:41 +0000 (16:47 +0000)]
make_tar_archive() needs to initialize `success'.
Thanks to "Morgan" <theatomicbob@excite.com> for reporting this bug.

18 years agoFirst complete draft.
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 7 Aug 2006 17:26:11 +0000 (17:26 +0000)]
First complete draft.

18 years agoFirst draft.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 4 Aug 2006 20:46:34 +0000 (20:46 +0000)]
First draft.

18 years agoClarify length.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 4 Aug 2006 20:46:26 +0000 (20:46 +0000)]
Clarify length.

18 years agoImprovements.
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:32:38 +0000 (18:32 +0000)]
Improvements.

18 years agoFirst complete draft of advice for project 2.
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:27:36 +0000 (17:27 +0000)]
First complete draft of advice for project 2.

18 years agoIncomplete first draft.
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 24 Jul 2006 03:30:06 +0000 (03:30 +0000)]
Incomplete first draft.

18 years agoFix comment.
Ben Pfaff [Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:56:44 +0000 (21:56 +0000)]
Fix comment.

18 years agoFix comment.
Ben Pfaff [Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:53:47 +0000 (21:53 +0000)]
Fix comment.

18 years agoImprove comment on sema_down.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:05:37 +0000 (02:05 +0000)]
Improve comment on sema_down.
Thanks to Haobo Xu for pointing this out.

18 years agoAdd an identifier to each question in the design document templates,
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:56:03 +0000 (00:56 +0000)]
Add an identifier to each question in the design document templates,
so that they are easier to refer to individually.

18 years agoFirst stab at grading advice.
Ben Pfaff [Sun, 9 Jul 2006 17:58:21 +0000 (17:58 +0000)]
First stab at grading advice.

18 years agoAdd a label for each question.
Ben Pfaff [Sun, 9 Jul 2006 17:55:06 +0000 (17:55 +0000)]
Add a label for each question.

18 years agoFix typo.
Ben Pfaff [Sun, 9 Jul 2006 15:10:00 +0000 (15:10 +0000)]
Fix typo.

18 years agoFix comment.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 8 Jul 2006 19:26:38 +0000 (19:26 +0000)]
Fix comment.

18 years ago"woken up" => "awakened"
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 8 Jul 2006 18:56:36 +0000 (18:56 +0000)]
"woken up" => "awakened"

18 years agoAdd additional explanation to the spontaneous reboot output.
Ben Pfaff [Sat, 8 Jul 2006 18:15:14 +0000 (18:15 +0000)]
Add additional explanation to the spontaneous reboot output.

18 years agoMake requirements consistent with doc template wording.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 7 Jul 2006 20:54:50 +0000 (20:54 +0000)]
Make requirements consistent with doc template wording.

18 years agoPoint out that all_list and all_elem don't exist in the tree we provide.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 7 Jul 2006 18:53:30 +0000 (18:53 +0000)]
Point out that all_list and all_elem don't exist in the tree we provide.

18 years agoNew FAQ.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 7 Jul 2006 01:52:28 +0000 (01:52 +0000)]
New FAQ.

18 years agoFix summary.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 7 Jul 2006 01:14:13 +0000 (01:14 +0000)]
Fix summary.
Thanks to Samanth Lingampalli <samanthl@stanford.edu> and Haobo Xu
<haoboxu@stanford.edu> for input.

18 years agoDon't say that the design doc itself is 50% of the grade.
Ben Pfaff [Sun, 2 Jul 2006 16:52:58 +0000 (16:52 +0000)]
Don't say that the design doc itself is 50% of the grade.

18 years agoUse test -f because Solaris sh does not support -e.
Ben Pfaff [Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:51:42 +0000 (00:51 +0000)]
Use test -f because Solaris sh does not support -e.
(Idiots can't read POSIX spec I guess.)

18 years agoRecommend zcat piping into tar x, instead of tar xzf, because some of
Ben Pfaff [Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:52:52 +0000 (21:52 +0000)]
Recommend zcat piping into tar x, instead of tar xzf, because some of
the Leland machines don't have GNU tar and thus don't support "z".