08-11-2010
Building an operating system for senior project?
Hey guys! this is my first post on this site. I was hoping you guys could help me out. I am going to be a senior this year and I want to build an operating system from scratch or at least do as much of as I can by myself. I want to build nothing big like ubuntu but something smaller looking that looks more like android or ios. I know I have to start off with a kernal and then from there do the rest but if you could help me out. Could you answer a few of my questions? and give me other tips that you think will be helpful? Thank you very much!
1. How do I start building the kernal? Is there a program i use to create it?
2. What programs will I need to create this operating system?
3. what languages will I need to learn? I looked this part up and found I will have to learn c+, C++ and maybe C#.
4. What programs will I need to create this whole project?
For people who don't know what a senior project is, it's a project that you create your senior year of high school or in college. You have to learn something then do something that relates to what you learned. I am a computer person and building a program seems something that anyone can do. I want more of a challenge. Thank you guys for all the help.
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setprogname
GETPROGNAME(3) BSD Library Functions Manual GETPROGNAME(3)
NAME
getprogname, setprogname -- get or set the program name
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
const char *
getprogname(void);
void
setprogname(const char *progname);
DESCRIPTION
The getprogname() and setprogname() functions manipulate the name of the current program. They are used by error-reporting routines to pro-
duce consistent output.
The getprogname() function returns the name of the program. If the name has not been set yet, it will return NULL.
The setprogname() function sets the name of the program to be the last component of the progname argument. Since a pointer to the given
string is kept as the program name, it should not be modified for the rest of the program's lifetime.
In FreeBSD, the name of the program is set by the start-up code that is run before main(); thus, running setprogname() is not necessary.
Programs that desire maximum portability should still call it; on another operating system, these functions may be implemented in a portabil-
ity library. Calling setprogname() allows the aforementioned library to learn the program name without modifications to the start-up code.
SEE ALSO
err(3)
HISTORY
These functions first appeared in NetBSD 1.6, and made their way into FreeBSD 4.4.
BSD
May 1, 2001 BSD