The GNU Mach Reference Manual

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This is edition 0.4, last updated on 4 February 2007, of The GNU Mach Reference Manual, for version 1.3.99 of the GNU Mach microkernel.

Introduction: How to use this manual.
Installing: Setting up GNU Mach on your computer.
Bootstrap: Running GNU Mach on your machine.
Inter Process Communication: Communication between process.
Virtual Memory Interface: Allocating and deallocating virtual memory.
External Memory Management: Handling memory pages in user space.
Threads and Tasks: Handling of threads and tasks.
Host Interface: Interface to a Mach host.
Processors and Processor Sets: Handling processors and sets of processors.
Device Interface: Accessing kernel devices.
Kernel Debugger: How to use the built-in kernel debugger.

Appendices

Indices

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Introduction

Installing

Bootstrap

Inter Process Communication

Messaging Interface

Port Manipulation Interface

Port Creation: How to create new ports and port sets.
Port Destruction: How to destroy ports and port sets.
Port Names: How to query and manipulate port names.
Port Rights: How to work with port rights.
Ports and other Tasks: How to move rights between tasks.
Receive Rights: How to work with receive rights.
Port Sets: How to work with port sets.
Request Notifications: How to request notifications for events.

Virtual Memory Interface

External Memory Management

Memory Object Server: The basics of external memory management.
Memory Object Creation: How new memory objects are created.
Memory Object Termination: How memory objects are terminated.
Memory Objects and Data: Data transfer to and from memory objects.
Memory Object Locking: How memory objects are locked.
Memory Object Attributes: Manipulating attributes of memory objects.
Default Memory Manager: Setting and using the default memory manager.

Threads and Tasks

Thread Interface

Thread Creation: Creating threads.
Thread Termination: Terminating threads.
Thread Information: How to get informations on threads.
Thread Settings: How to set threads related informations.
Thread Execution: How to control the thread's machine state.
Scheduling: Operations on thread scheduling.
Thread Special Ports: How to handle the thread's special ports.
Exceptions: Managing exceptions.

Scheduling

Task Interface

Host Interface

Processors and Processor Sets

Processor Set Interface

Processor Set Ports: Ports representing a processor set.
Processor Set Access: How the processor sets are accessed.
Processor Set Creation: How new processor sets are created.
Processor Set Destruction: How processor sets are destroyed.
Tasks and Threads on Sets: Assigning tasks or threads to processor sets.
Processor Set Priority: Specifying the priority of a processor set.
Processor Set Policy: Changing the processor set policies.
Processor Set Info: Obtaining information about a processor set.

Processor Interface

Device Interface

Kernel Debugger

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