Kernel

NightOS' kernel is named Cosmos. It is a micro-kernel which tries to be as simple and straightforward as possible, delegating all non-trivial tasks such as filesystem access or permissions management to services.

NOTE: This document is in its very early stages, and so is far from being complete. Major changes may and will be made to related documents.

Documents

• Hardware - how the kernel interacts with hardware
• Memory - memory organization and management
• Processes - processes concept and management
• Scheduling - tasks scheduling
• Data structures - data structures used by the kernel to represent things in memory
• Kernel-process communication - how the kernel communicate with processes and vice-versa
• Inter-process communication - communication between processes
• Signals - complete specification of signals
• System calls - complete specification of system calls