Operating system

I thought it might be useful to know which applications lack man pages, since that's not easy to tell otherwise. This is a list manually compiled by comparing the directory listing of /bin with the online man pages.

I have intentionally skipped applets, demos, and internal servers that are not intended to be called directly, though you could argue for including

• The set_mode_X() HIL functions need to support returning an error if hardware does not support that mode or if the implementation cannot put the hardware in to that mode at that time. See for an example where panic is used instead of returning an error https://github.com/tock/tock/pull/2629/files.

It's time for Hacktoberfest!

I'm marking this issue for hacktoberfest. That means that I will only accept PRs for these changes from new(ish) contributors to open source as envisioned by the Hacktoberfest project. Experienced contributors, please leave this issue for those just getting started!

These

debootstrap.sh replaces extraargs or another line in the environment where it finds 'console=' before the line that starts with console=

Suggested the following fix:

--- a/lib/debootstrap.sh
+++ b/lib/debootstrap.sh
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ prepare_partitions()
 	# if we have a headless device, set console to DEFAULT_CONSOLE
 	if [[ -n $DEFAULT_CONSOLE && -f $SDCARD/boot/armbianE

This is on hold because of the many bugs in the compiler

The build has received support for C++20 modules and it's now time to port the whole codebase to it.

The battle plan is to first port applications and utilities and then works our way down the dependency chain except everything needed by the kernel and the libc: libsystem, libio, libutils, libjson

Applications

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I can't disable kiosk mode due to a write-protected partition, how can I enable writing to chrome_dev.conf?