thox, a multi-tasking OS for ComputerCraft

thox is an operating system for ComputerCraft providing pre-emptive multitasking, secure thread sandboxing and modern IPC facilities.

For more information, consult the following references:

• The repository.

• The issues tracker, in case you’re encountering problems or want to suggest what thox should add next.

This documentation is organized using Diátaxis’ structure.

Any question? Any issue? Any security flaw, such as a sandbox escape? You can either contact me by mail at thomas@touhey.fr or on the Computer Mods Discord Server (@cake).

Warning

This project is in early alpha and documentation-driven, which means the documentation will very probably be in advance on the code. This is because I strongly believe that while the code might disappear, what will stay is the concepts and the user experience attempted at in this project, and the notions covered in the documentation (including protocols’ and file formats descriptions).

• Onboarding
  • Running thox
• Howtos
  • How to set up a GPS cluster with thox?
  • How to transfer a file between two devices?
• Discussion topics
  • initd: process manager with thox IPC
  • fsd: filesystem daemon
  • gpsd: GPS locating daemon
  • modemd: modem networking daemon
  • rand: random and entropy production daemon
• Code reference
  • initd internals
  • Runtime APIs
• RPC APIs reference
  • initd (RPC API)
  • fsd (RPC API)
  • gpsd (RPC API)
  • modemd (RPC API)
  • rand (RPC API)