jsh-tyy - Linux Job Control Shell

This project was carried out as part of an academic project for Operating Systems 5. It's a simple yet functional shell that supports job control.

Features

This is a non exhaustive list of the features of our shell:

• Built-in commands: cd, exit, jobs, fg, bg, kill and ? (environment variables are not updated, so this is the same as echo $?)
• Redirections: >, >|, >>, 2>, 2>|, 2>>, <
• Pipelines: |
• Command substitution: <()
• Background jobs: &
• Job control

Running the shell

Prerequisites

This project requires gcc and make to be installed on your system, along with the readline library. It should run on any Linux distribution, but it's sadly not POSIX compliant, we use the proc virtual filesystem to get some pieces of information about the processes and for named pipes, maybe one day we'll change that, should be fun.

For those of you who are interested on running the tests, you will need valgrind installed on your system (explained later).

Compilation

To compile the project, execute the command

make

or

make jsh

Execution

To run the project, execute the following command after compiling it

./jsh

Testing

You can run the tests using the following commands, some may require valgrind to be installed and some may take a while to run (should be less than 2 minutes).

make test-unit        # our unit tests
make test-valgrind    # our unit tests with valgrind
make test-tyy         # our tests using the professors' framework
make test-professor   # our professors' test framework
make test             # all the tests

More information (in French)

You can see the project's formal specification in the project.md file.

We have also written a small report on our architecture and the choices we made, you can find it in the ARCHITECTURE.md file.

Authors

See AUTHORS.md