WebLog

1. Early in the morning, I failed to recall the name of a girl I asked out on Valentine’s day just 3 years ago. 2. Emailed Andy and got a thoughtful response back. 3. Not the same with someone else I emailed. 4. Felt so lonely at night that I decided to go out for a walk. Asked two people to join, one rejected, another didn’t see the text until I was back. The best part was meeting 3 explorers on the way and joining them for an adventure without second thought.

… has been kinda unproductive. Turned the tables of productive vs distracting time on April 1 (that is the joke was on me). They say “the time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” Indeed, I enjoyed the time after 7:45pm, when I went to a Pub Trivia Night for the first time, with people like me (read nerds). But I cannot account for the rest of the day which is the whole day!

Abstract

This paper describes the experience, problems and successes found in implementing a unix-like operating system kernel in rust. Using the basic design and much of the lowest-level support code from the Weenix operating system written for CS167/9 I was able to create a basic kernel supporting multiple kernel processes scheduled cooperatively, drivers for the basic devices and the beginnings of a virtual file system. I made note of where the rust programming language, and its safety and type systems, helped and hindered my work and made some, tentative, performance comparisons between the rust and C implementations of this kernel. I also include a short introduction to the rust programming language and the weenix project.