Programmer's Guide.

Revised version 2/2000

MiNT is Now TOS

A Multitasking OS Extension for the Atari ST/TT/Falcon.

Table Of Contents:

• Copyrights

• Editorial

• I. Introduction

  • Preface
  • Special directories
  • Background processes
  • Pipes
  • Job control

• II. Programming with MiNT

  • MiNT friendly programs
  • Testing for the presence of MiNT
  • File handles and devices
  • MiNT extensions to GEMDOS calls
  • Using u:\proc
  • Extended argument (ARGV) specification

• III. Interprocess communication

  • Signals
  • FIFOs
  • Shared memory
  • Rendezvous
  • Semaphores

• IV. Debugging

  • Tracing programs
  • What happens when the traced process receives a signal
  • Reading/writing the process' address space
  • Reading and writing the process' registers

• V. Memory protection

  • Four types of memory
  • PRG flags for protection
  • Mxalloc() protection flags

• VI. MiNT file systems

  • File cookies
  • File system structure
  • The device driver structure
  • How the file system is booted
  • Controlling real FAT XFS

• VII. MiNT drive I/O

  • Low level buffer cache
  • DMA driver interface

• VIII. MiNT internals

  • MiNT time management
  • Kernel interface table
  • The Cookie Jar pointer
  • Ssystem(), the new kernel call
  • The libkern

• IX. MiNT-Net

  • Specification for GEMDOS File Sharing & Record Locking

• How to write a kernel module

  • Device driver (xdd)
  • File system (xfs)
  • Network interface driver (xif)
  • USB drivers (ucd, udd)
  • Other kernel modules (km)

• Appendix A: Index of MiNT calls

• Appendix B: The MiNT configuration file

• Appendix C: The keyboard table file

• Appendix D: The kernel map

• Appendix E: The ELF file format