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Tracking Issue for UNIX-style paths

The following is a list of changes to made to complete the implementation of the new path format.

  • Update the documentation to use the new format wherever possible but describe the legacy format and say it is still used
  • Finalize the namespace RFC
  • Decide when /scheme/file should be explicit and when it should be removed/hidden
  • Convert relibc to the new path format (this should have it's own tracking issue)
  • Finish converting the kernel to the new path format everywhere
  • Implement the namespace RFC in the kernel with support for both current and new formats
  • Stablize the redox-scheme crate and redox-event crate and update to the new format for paths and namespace
  • Convert all schemes and drivers to use redox-scheme and redox-event rather than creating sockets directly (this should have its own tracking issue)
  • Decide on Orbital paths and get/set window attributes (may need its own RFC)
  • Convert OrbUtils and other Orbital-compatible programs to use the new Orbital path format
  • Wrap all legacy format support (and conversion between formats) with a feature guard going forward
  • Add the feature guard to the kernel, relibc, RedoxFS and anything else that supports both formats
  • Convert all libraries to the new format (or to handle both formats if appropriate) (this should have its own tracking issue)
  • Convert all programs to the new format (this should have its own tracking issue)
  • Disable the legacy format feature guard in each program and test
  • Remove all guarded legacy format support
  • Update the documentation to remove all references to the old format
  • Fix programs known to use the old scheme format (may be in crates or libraries)
    • Nushell
    • COSMIC-term, COSMIC-files, possibly COSMIC-edit

Schemes

This section tracks the schemes that were updated to use the new path format.

Userspace

  • disk.*
  • disk.live
  • disk.usb-{id}+{port}-scsi
  • logging
  • initfs
  • file
  • network
  • ip
  • tcp
  • udp
  • icmp
  • netcfg
  • dns
  • display.vesa
  • display.virtio-gpu
  • orbital
  • pty
  • audiorw
  • audio
  • usb.*
  • pcspkr
  • acpi
  • input
  • escalate
  • chan
  • shm
  • log
  • rand
  • zero
  • null

Kernel

  • namespace
  • user
  • debug
  • event
  • irq
  • pipe
  • proc
  • thisproc
  • sys
  • kernel.acpi
  • memory
  • time
  • itimer
  • serio
Edited by Ribbon