Specifications

This folder contains specification documents, whose purpose is to describe fully a specific concept or feature. Think of these as reference documents - they are not meant to be easily understood without a solid knowledge of how NightOS works. For more informations about low-level concepts these documents refer to, you can check the technical documents first.

• Applications and libraries - document describing common things between applications and libraries
• Applications - how applications are structured and behave
• Libraries - what are libraries
• Filesystem - how the filesystem works
• Storage permissions - how permissions are managed on filesystem elements
• The boot process - how the system starts
• Update processes - how updates are performed
• Containers - process isolation system
• Permissions - list of applications' permissions
• The registry - exhaustive specification of the registry's content
• Vocabulary - the list of NightOS-related terms
• The shell - how Hydre works
• Shell scripting - Hydre's scripting language
• Crash saves - what are crash saves and how they are handled
• Kernel - complete specifications of the kernel
• Services - specifications about services work and behave
• Translations - how content translation is handled

Integration services

• Desktop environment
• File managers
• File openers
• Filesystem interfaces

Driver services

• Storage driver service

System services

• sys::fs: filesystem management
• sys::fsh: high-level filesystem management
• sys::hw: hardware communication
• sys::perm: permissions management
• sys::net: network communications
• sys::crypto: cryptography utilities
• sys::crashsave: crash saves management
• sys::hydre: Hydre shell service
• sys::ui: user interface service
• sys::app: applications management service
• sys::process: processes management service