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microkernel's `ps`/`kill`/SIGCHLD: enumerate as a table snapshot, the
supervision link as the kill authority, and child-exit notifications over the
same endpoints IRQs arrive on.
16. **[input.md](input.md) — the input module.** Broadcasting input events (keyboard,
16. **[process-lifecycle.md](process-lifecycle.md) — the process lifecycle.** Design:
signals over IPC as the one lifecycle vocabulary every process speaks — the
POSIX.1-1990 words with message delivery instead of stack hijack, the stable
`runtime.process` interface, exit reasons, published exit events any stateful
service can subscribe to (the VFS releasing dead clients' handles), and the two
iron rules (cleanup is the kernel's job; kill is not a signal).
17. **[device-manager.md](device-manager.md) — the device manager.** Design: the
tree, the matcher, and the supervisor. Tree structure lives in the manager,
authority stays in the kernel; bus drivers report what they see; drivers are
restarted through the lifecycle vocabulary — the plan that turns
[resilience.md](resilience.md)'s restart goal into increments.
18. **[input.md](input.md) — the input module.** Broadcasting input events (keyboard,
mouse, joystick): why a synchronous rendezvous can't fan out to many listeners, the
asynchronous `ipc_send` primitive built to fix it, and the per-device subscribe/publish
service layered on top.
17. **[halting.md](halting.md) — halting.** Why a kernel can't just "exit", and
19. **[halting.md](halting.md) — halting.** Why a kernel can't just "exit", and
how `while (true) hlt` parks the CPU safely once there's nothing left to do.
Start with the north star:
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test for "is this an abbreviation I must expand" is simply: *is there a longer word this
is a clipped form of?* If yes, write the word. If it's an initialism standing in for a
phrase, leave it.
## Zen of Zig
* Communicate intent precisely.
* Edge cases matter.
* Favor reading code over writing code.
* Only one obvious way to do things.
* Runtime crashes are better than bugs.
* Compile errors are better than runtime crashes.
* Incremental improvements.
* Avoid local maximums.
* Reduce the amount one must remember.
* Focus on code rather than style.
* Resource allocation may fail; resource deallocation must succeed.
* Memory is a resource.
* Together we serve the users.