iAPX 286 Operating System Writers Guide 1983

BINDING AND LOADINGBINDINGLOADERTASK BOUNDTOOPERATINGSYSTEM121960-55Figure 11-5. Strategy for Load-Time Bindingfinishes creation of the new task by creating a TSS from a template in the loader and placing the newtask in the scheduler's queues. RESERVE_SLOTS uses techniques such as those illustrated inChapter 2 to allocate descriptor table slots. CHANGE~R is used to place the correct type code intothe writable data-segment descriptor used by the loader to fill a segment.The module BOND (shown in figure 11-7) shows the handling of the table of actual gates for operating-systemprimitives. The procedureGET_LOAD_FILE is not defined here. It simply fetches the filespecification for a load able module from, for example, the console or the command line interpreter.11-14 121960-001