Design Papers

From ReactOS

ROS design papers and notes

Post your design-related thoughts and ideas here. Also post any knowledge that may be of use for future development, especially if the information is in danger of getting lost between now and when it's needed ;-).

• Design papers
  • ACL format in extended attributes AclEaFormat
  • Enable Softlinks to the FAT family SoftLinkFAT
  • Intel Pentium Manuals: http://developer.intel.com/design/PentiumIII/manuals
  • Compatible filesystem-level rights across Linux and ROS CompatibleACL
  • Win64 Issues
  • White Paper

• Ideas
  • Package manager like that from debian - see PackageManager
  • ReactOSUpdate, similar to the services provided by MacOS X and Windows for retrieving patches and additional components.
  • ReactOSIndex server/service
  • WierdFileSystemSecurityIdea
  • ReactOS Hardware Sharing - Allow remote computers, via authentication, to use devices such as scanners, usb devices, etc. ACLs would apply, times of the day, etc. This would allow a user to view say someone's TV tuner as a virtual tv. I bet this would be hard to do.
  • User-mode ReactOS: like http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/. It sounds easy enough, only time consuming, as it's equivalent to a port for a new architecture.
  • StaticVerifier
  • Maybe a Python Port would be handy ?

• Knowledge
  • OS/2-EAs on FAT OsTwoEaFat
  • LPC-Format documented LpcFormat
  • KD-Internals (Inside Kernel Debugger): http://www.vsj.co.uk/articles/display.asp?id=265
  • SEH - under the hood: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/1097/hood1097.aspx
  • and Crash Course to SEH: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0197/exception/exception.aspx
  • The Internals Department (w2kmag): [1]
  • Hoard Memory Allocator Library: http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/hoard/
  • Under the hood: Cache Manager: http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Articles/ArticleID/3864/pg/3/3.html

• Programming
  • Assembly programming: http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/Page_TechDocs/
  • Optimizing Assembly tutorial: http://www.agner.org/assem/