Specifications

This folder contains specification documents, whose purpose is to describe fully a specific concept or feature. Think of these as reference documents - they are not meant to be easily understood without a solid knowledge of how NightOS works. For more informations about low-level concepts these documents refer to, you can check the technical documents first.

• Application context - launch an application to directly perform a specific task
• Applications package - files representing a whole application
• Applications manifest - how applications describe themselves in their package
• Filesystem structure - list of file and directories and their meaning
• Inter-process communication - communication between processes
• Libraries - what are libraries
• The registry - exhaustive specification of the registry's content
• Vocabulary - the list of NightOS-related terms
• The shell - how Hydre works
• Shell scripting - Hydre's scripting language
• Signals - complete specification of signals
• System calls - complete specification of system calls
• Kernel - complete specifications of the kernel
• System services - complete list of system services