errno: -1 is EPERM, and four places were saying it by accident
Ctrl-C killed the shell. consoleread() breaks off the read in progress when
SIGINT arrives and returned -1 to do it -- and -1 is -EPERM by the time it
reaches a program, so every program that handles SIGINT by carrying on saw a
permanent error instead of an interrupted call:
zsh: error on TTY read: operation not permitted
schinitd: restarting os.schos.console-shell
and the next Ctrl-C did it to the replacement. EINTR now, which is what a
signal-interrupted read is required to give. Verified: Ctrl-C an interruptible
command, shell survives, zero restarts.
Same mistake, same file family: link, unlink, rename and renameat returned -1
on every error path. Callers branch on errno -- `if (unlink(p) < 0 && errno !=
ENOENT)` is the standard shape, and against EPERM it always complains -- which
is why zsh reported failures for things that had worked. They return ENOENT,
EEXIST, EXDEV, EISDIR, ENOTEMPTY and EFAULT now. About ninety other `return -1`s
remain in sys_fs.c; these four are done because these four were what a program
tripped over. /dev/mem's unknown minors return ENODEV rather than -1 too.
/dev/urandom was a linear congruential generator seeded with a **constant**, so
every boot produced the same bytes in the same order -- not weak, the same. A
key, a nonce, a temporary filename: shared with every SchOS machine that had
ever run. Seeded at boot from RDRAND where the CPU has it, from the cycle
counter and the wall clock where it does not, and re-stirred per byte. Still an
LCG and still not a CSPRNG; what changed is the part that was dangerous rather
than merely poor.
**Not fixed, and recorded as such:** rename() still will not replace an existing
target, so zsh's history save fails on every exit after the first. An attempt to
unlink the target first was reverted -- the directory is an HTree, dirunlink
followed by dirlink of the same name did not behave, and it panicked in
filewrite with the old file already gone. Losing both files is worse than
refusing, so it refuses until the HTree's slot reuse is understood.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Anything that moves the cursor deliberately -- CR, LF, backspace, an escape
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sequence -- clears the debt.
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## Ctrl-C used to kill the shell
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Worth its own note, because the cause was one character and the effect was a
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machine you could not use.
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When Ctrl-C arrives, `consoleread()` discards the partial line and breaks off
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the read in progress. It returned **`-1`** to do so — and `-1` is `-EPERM`. So a
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program that handles `SIGINT` by carrying on saw a permanent error instead of
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an interrupted call, and exited:
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```
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zsh: error on TTY read: operation not permitted
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schinitd: restarting os.schos.console-shell
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```
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and then the next Ctrl-C did the same thing to the replacement. A shell that
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cannot survive Ctrl-C is a shell nobody can use, and the supervisor faithfully
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restarting it made it a loop.
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It returns **`EINTR`** now, which is what a signal-interrupted read is required
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to give: the whole convention — retry, or return to the caller — is built on
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receiving that and not something else.
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## What it does not do
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- **No scrollback.** The grid is exactly the visible screen. Shift+PageUp does
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