Base

Repository containing various system daemons, that are considered fundamental for the OS.

You can see what each component does in the following list:

• audiod - Daemon used to process the sound drivers audio
• bootstrap - First code that the kernel executes, responsible for spawning the init daemon
• init - Daemon used to start most system components and programs
• initfs - Filesystem with the necessary system components to run RedoxFS
• ipcd - Daemon used for inter-process communication
• logd - Daemon used to log system components and daemons
• netstack - Daemon used for networking
• ptyd - Daemon used for pseudo-terminal
• ramfs - RAM filesystem
• randd - Daemon used for random number generation
• zerod - Daemon used to discard all writes and fill read buffers with zero

How To Contribute

To learn how to contribute to this system component you need to read the following document:

• CONTRIBUTING.md

Development

To learn how to do development with this system component inside the Redox build system you need to read the Build System and Coding and Building pages.

How To Build

To build this system component you need to download the Redox build system, you can learn how to do it on the Building Redox page.

This is necessary because they only work with cross-compilation to a Redox virtual machine, but you can do some testing from Linux.