What is Icon-O-Matic? There’s a good chance that not everyone reading this article will know what Icon-O-Matic is, so I’ll start by explaining what it is. Icon-O-Matic is a vector graphics editing program like Illustrator or Inkscape. It is specifically made to work with Haiku’s custom HVIF vector graphics format. This format is similar to the SVG format, except optimized to be much, much smaller. The blog post “500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format” provides a more in-depth discussion for those interested.
Where We Last Left Off So last time I posted I was able to say that I got the client side for OpenVPN on Haiku working but not the server but I am proud to say that now both the server and client work extremely well now on Haiku :) I was able to get the server from not working to working and was able to get the latency for the entire VPN operation down from 1000ms average to anywhere between 2ms to 9ms (that’s a caveat as that is without blocking which will be discussed later).
As is the usual way of things, the monthly Activity Report is hereby combined with my Contract Report.
This report covers hrev57127 through hrev57183.
Project status overview The long awaited stateful FD monitoring has finally been implemented on Haiku, and there now is a partial implementation of kqueue usable in libbsd. Therefore, Release builds of .NET can now work properly (after some more hacks) and have been set as the default in my custom dotnet-install.sh script.
Due to some technical difficulties in parsing Doxygen documentation and converting it to the XML format used in C#, I have delayed my effort to generate documentation for the Haiku API bindings.
Tempered Optimism So great news everyone, OpenVPN and the TUN/TAP driver is working on Haiku! While this is great news for the development of the project, I need to temper it with some problems that the project has encountered now. So first thing that I had to change first was going from TUN to TAP since OpenVPN wanted a Point-to-Point connection for the TUN driver and Point-to-Point isn’t quite a thing on Haiku yet.
The Weekly Problem So we are just past the midway point for GSoC and last update I told you guys that I had a working (albeit somewhat buggy) TUN Driver working. I had gotten great feedback from Pulkomandy, Axel, and Korli to help with a more efficient driver and to make it more human-readable because it made no sense the way I had written it. I have very good news to bring to everyone in that all of the 3 main problems that I talked about last time are all solved!
Project status overview C# bindings for some parts of the Haiku API is now available, along with basic .NET SDK support for building Haiku applications, in a .NET workload (more details below). The source code and install instructions are currently in this GitHub repo.
.NET custom builds for Haiku are still regularly updated to reflect the latest changes in both .NET and Haiku. Most recently, the datagram socket hack has been removed as SOCK_DGRAM support for Haiku has been merged.
Sorry for the late blog post everyone! Personal life and some roadblocks on the project got in the way but I am proud to say that the driver is up and working!
Problems, Problems, and more Problems I got the semaphore problem settled, but I then ran into a problem where the data that the application on the interface side sends a packet was then not receiving the packet. Through some debugging I found out that the interface, when it goes into device_consumer_thread for getting the receive function, it fails here.
As is the usual way of things, the monthly Activity Report is hereby combined with my Contract Report.
This report covers hrev57061 through hrev57126.
Argument handling on Haiku
Hi, I’m Nephele. I’ve not made a blog post before, but this seemed like a good opportunity.
There are two main ways to start an application from Haiku’s UI, directly and indirectly. Directly by opening it, and indirectly by opening a file that the application you want supports (and is configured to handle).
The indirect way involves opening a file that the application supports and having the mimetype plus the registrar figure out where to forward this to.
