genode/os/src/server/nitpicker
Norman Feske fae63f4fa9 Merge base libraries into a single library
This patch simplifies the way of how Genode's base libraries are
organized. Originally, the base API was implemented in the form of many
small libraries such as 'thread', 'env', 'server', etc. Most of them
used to consist of only a small number of files. Because those libraries
are incorporated in any build, the checking of their inter-dependencies
made the build process more verbose than desired. Also, the number of
libraries and their roles (core only, non-core only, shared by both core
and non-core) were not easy to capture.

Hereby, the base libraries have been reduced to the following few
libraries:

- startup.mk contains the startup code for normal Genode processes.
  On some platform, core is able to use the library as well.
- base-common.mk contains the parts of the base library that are
  identical by core and non-core processes.
- base.mk contains the complete base API implementation for non-core
  processes

Consequently, the 'LIBS' declaration in 'target.mk' files becomes
simpler as well. In the most simple case, only the 'base' library must
be mentioned.

Fixes #18
2013-02-19 14:45:55 +01:00
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common Nitpicker: avoid potential dangling pointer 2013-01-15 10:18:12 +01:00
data Update copyright headers to 2013 2013-01-10 21:44:47 +01:00
genode Merge base libraries into a single library 2013-02-19 14:45:55 +01:00
include Update copyright headers to 2013 2013-01-10 21:44:47 +01:00
README Imported Genode release 11.11 2011-12-22 16:19:25 +01:00
TODO Imported Genode release 11.11 2011-12-22 16:19:25 +01:00

README

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Nitpicker is the low-level GUI server of Genode. For the general concepts,
please refer to the following document:

:A Nitpickers guide to a minimal-complexity secure GUI:

  [http://genode-labs.com/publications/nitpicker-secure-gui-2005.pdf]


Configuration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Nitpicker supports the following configuration options, supplied via
Genode's config mechanism.

:Tinting of clients in X-Ray mode:

  Nitpicker allows for assigning a color to single clients or a groups
  of clients based on the client's label. The following configuration
  tints all views of the launchpad subsystem in blue except for those
  views that belong to the testnit child of launchpad.
  ! <config>
  !   <policy label="launchpad"            color="#0000ff"/>
  !   <policy label="launchpad -> testnit" color="#ff0000"/>
  ! </config>