it may not seem like much, but i’ve gotten to completely rewriting my syscall structure. how you may ask?

when it comes to system design, I want to separate Astatine from Unix’s own malpractices. Rather than going with the “everything is a file” paradigm, a concept that just squishes everything rather than make a decent api, I separated device and file nodes. You open with file_open and device_open.

On top of this, I added some better handling of flags, switches, and made some decisions that I thought would be better. Of course, I’m not going to throw out the 75-year-old works of Unix engineers, but I do want some creativity involved and Astatine-Is-Not-Unix (ainu?).

System design is probably the worst part out of any OS design: it feels so much better to start implementing, but sometimes, you need both DIRECTION and MAGNITUDE vector reference to work on code you’ll actually use. The almost 20 hours of research isn’t lost on me though. I hope I don’t have to take a Unix class in college.