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jsix/definitions/objects/process.def
Justin C. Miller 9ac4e51224 [kernel] Make capabilities/handles global
Instead of handles / capabilities having numeric ids that are only valid
for the owning process, they are now global in a system capabilities
table. This will allow for specifying capabilities in IPC that doesn't
need to be kernel-controlled.

Processes will still need to be granted access to given capabilities,
but that can become a simpler system call than the current method of
sending them through mailbox messages (and worse, having to translate
every one into a new capability like was the case before). In order to
track which handles a process has access to, a new node_set based on
node_map allows for an efficient storage and lookup of handles.
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import "objects/object.def"
# Processes are a collection of handles and a virtual memory
# space inside which threads are run.
object process : object {
uid 0c69ee0b7502ba31
capabilities [
kill
create_thread
]
# Create a new empty process
method create [constructor]
# Stop all threads and exit the given process
method kill [destructor cap:kill]
# Stop all threads and exit the current process
method exit [static noreturn] {
param result int32 # The result to retrun to the parent process
}
# Give the given process a handle that points to the same
# object as the specified handle.
method give_handle {
param target ref object [handle] # A handle in the caller process to send
}
}