D R A F T
The OSKit: The Flux Operating System Toolkit
Version 0.96

The Flux Research Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA 84112
http://www.cs.utah.edu/projects/flux/oskit/
oskit@flux.cs.utah.edu

December 17, 1998

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• Contents
• Part I: Design and Organization
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Execution Environments
• Part II: Interfaces
  • 3 Introduction to OSKit Interfaces
  • 4 The Component Object Model
  • 5 Input/Output Interfaces
  • 6 OSKit Device Driver (OS Environment) Framework
  • 7 OSKit File System Framework
  • 8 OSKit Networking Framework
• Part III: Function Libraries
  • 9 Minimal C Library: liboskit_c.a
  • 10 Kernel Support Library: liboskit_kern.a
  • 11 Symmetric Multiprocessing: liboskit_smp.a
  • 12 Kernel Device Driver Support: liboskit_dev.a
• Part IV: Component Libraries
  • 13 FreeBSD C Library: liboskit_freebsd_c.a
  • 14 FreeBSD Math Library: liboskit_freebsd_m.a
  • 15 List-based Memory Manager: liboskit_lmm.a
  • 16 Address Map Manager: liboskit_amm.a
  • 17 Simple Virtual Memory: liboskit_svm.a
  • 18 POSIX Threads: liboskit_threads.a
  • 19 Memory Debugging Utilities: liboskit_memdebug.a
  • 20 Profiling Support: liboskit_gprof.a
  • 21 Disk Partition Interpreter: liboskit_diskpart.a
  • 22 File System Reader: liboskit_fsread.a
  • 23 Executable Program Interpreter: liboskit_exec.a
  • 24 Linux File Systems: liboskit_linux_fs.a
  • 25 NetBSD File Systems: liboskit_netbsd_fs.a
  • 26 FreeBSD Networking: liboskit_freebsd_net.a
  • 27 BOOTP Support: liboskit_bootp.a
  • 28 HPFQ: Hierarchical Network Link Sharing: liboskit_hpfq.a
  • 29 Linux Driver Set: liboskit_linux_dev.a
  • 30 FreeBSD Driver Set: liboskit_freebsd_dev.a
  • 31 WIMPi Window Manager: liboskit_wimpi.a
  • 32 Video Support: liboskit_video.a
• Part V: Utilities
  • 33 Network Booting
• Part VI: The Legal Stuff
  • 34 Copyrights and Licenses
• Index
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