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The commands only existed in the kernel's program table, so the only way to
find out what the machine could do was to already know (or read the source).
They are now a directory in the tree:
/# ls / /# xxd -l 16 /bin/uname
bin 0000: cd 6b 43 06 00 0e 00 f7 .kC.....
readme 0008: 18 fe 47 0e 03 f7 c9 21 ..G....!
/# ls -l /bin | head -2
- 1 16384 worker
/bin is synthetic, not disk: dir_find resolves "bin" in the root to BIN_INO
and names inside it through the NameTable, so `ls /bin` lists exactly what the
shell can run - one table, one truth, no second list to keep in sync. The root
listing carries "bin" as a synthetic first entry so it is discoverable by
walking the tree.
A program image is inode BIN_FILE|progid: it stats as a 16 KiB file (a program
IS its ROM bank) and reads through rom_getb, which maps that bank, takes the
byte, and maps the CALLER'S text bank back before returning - the caller is
itself executing from $4000, so leaving the wrong bank mapped would return
into another program's code. Verified byte-for-byte against the host's view of
the blob. The tree is read-only: create/remove/write inside /bin all fail.
xxd grows -l (stop after N bytes), because a program image is 2048 dump lines
- more than a pipe's temp file can hold, let alone the screen.
Two traps worth remembering, both found the hard way here: `and BIN_FILE`
destroys A, so the inode must be reloaded before inode_ptr (missing it once
made ls -l stat inode 0 and call every file an empty non-directory); and ls
now copies its directory argument to the stack first, because stat()'s request
block is a static living at $A000 - on top of the command line it was reading.
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Filling in the core utilities the box was missing:
- ls -l: type, links and size, now that stat() exists. The screen is 40
columns, so it is "d 1 256 name", not the GNU sprawl. Sizes were
previously unknowable except one file at a time with wc -c.
- df: blocks and inodes, used and free, on the 32 KiB cart disk.
- mv: no rename syscall, so it is cp + rm - and the copy has to finish before
the source goes, or a failure loses the file.
- tail [-n N]: no seek syscall, so it streams the input through a ring of N
lines rather than jumping to the end. N is capped by that ring.
- tee: the missing half of a pipeline - `cat big | tee copy | wc -l`.
- sleep: the thing every script needs; the kernel counts 1/64 s ticks.
- help: lists every command the shell knows, walked out of the kernel's own
name table. The box previously had no way to tell you what it could do.
- poweroff: the only safe way to stop a gbos that has data on it. The cart's
battery RAM is written when the emulator exits cleanly, so killing it loses
the whole filesystem - it comes back "formatted". Found while testing /rc.
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Userland sources live in usr/ (fits the Unix theme better than 'c').
SDCC output .bin blobs land in build/usr/ with the other build artifacts
instead of littering the source dir; programs.asm INCBINs them from there.
Byte-identical ROM.
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