SchOS/.claude/memory/schunix-schapi-direction.md
Nexoniarz 3182da3965 Carry project memory in the repo, with tools/memory-sync.sh
Claude Code keeps per-project memory at <home>/.claude/projects/<key>/,
where <key> is the project's absolute path with every separator and the
drive colon turned into a dash. That makes it both rename-fragile and
machine-specific, and this project has hit each of those once:

  - D:\DEV\Schunix -> D:\DEV\SchOS changed the key, and 43 memories were
    invisible until moved across by hand.
  - Development happens from Windows and from Linux, and each looks in a
    different place for the same checkout.

Committing .claude/memory/ fixes both -- git carries it across renames
and between hosts -- and `import` puts it wherever the local machine
expects. .claude/settings.local.json stays ignored: those are per-machine
permissions.

The colon maps to a dash rather than being dropped. Deleting it gives
D-DEV-SchOS, which matches nothing and silently finds zero memories; that
was the first attempt. On Git Bash the key comes from `cygpath -w`,
because Claude Code is a Windows program and sees D:\DEV\SchOS, not
/d/DEV/SchOS.
2026-08-09 14:27:22 +02:00

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schunix-schapi-direction Schunix is aimed at being a NeXTSTEP/macOS-shaped system with a native SchAPI over a POSIX personality, with permanent Windows-grade compatibility
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memory project 9d8a2aef-bcf0-47a0-96c6-f706efab4a95 2026-08-07T16:29:50.730Z

Agreed 2026-08-06. Schunix is no longer "a Unix-like kernel with a userland attached". It is aimed at being a system: NeXTSTEP/macOS-shaped layering, with POSIX/Unix kept complete but demoted from identity to personality, and a native higher-level API called SchAPI above it. Written up in docs/architecture/schapi.md.

The architecture is borrowed from macOS; the compatibility policy is borrowed from Windows (nothing is ever removed after 1.0). Those are two different systems — macOS drops things aggressively — and the mix is deliberate.

The load-bearing mechanism: the stable ABI is a library (libschunix), not the syscall table. That is why macOS can renumber syscalls freely while old binaries keep working, and why Linux is stuck with every syscall mistake it ever made. Syscalls become private and renumberable; only libschunix may issue them. This does not contradict schunix-linux-abi-decision — Linux numbering stays as the Linux personality's entry path, frozen because Linux froze it, not because we did.

Everything today is tier provisional; the freeze starts at 1.0 and covers only what is explicitly marked stable then. Committing now would enshrine things like the fcntl(F_SETFL) no-op fixed in schunix-doom-acceptance-test.

compat/ holds shims written in terms of the current API, not parallel implementations. If an old entry point cannot be expressed as a translation, that is a defect in the new API to fix before freezing.

src-trunk/ is a NetBSD checkout — reference material and a parts bin, never built, never in an image. Highest-value pieces: sys/net+sys/netinet (the TCP/IP stack, for the roadmap's Phase 2), subr_pool.c (slab allocator), and the autoconf driver model. NetBSD is not uniformly licensed — a minority of files still carry the 4-clause advertising clause and Berkeley's 1999 rescission only covers UC-copyrighted files. Check every file before copying: grep -l "All advertising materials". See schunix-licensing.

Ordering is unchanged: this is a direction, not a task. The native Windows build has to boot first — see schunix-build-environment.