Re: some questions on Hurd

[Ulrich Eckhardt <Doomster@knuut.de>]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> > In libports: there are buckets (port sets) and classes (???) what is the difference, how should I interprete classes?
> 
> A port class defines how a ``type'' of port is destroyed etc.  A port
> bucket is a collection of ports (of any class).
> 
This has puzzled me for a while, too. Am I right that (speaking C++) a
port bucket is a container while the port class is in fact a property of a
port(the C++ class)?


Which brings me to another question: The Documentation on the Hurd (hurd.ps)
which I got from the web is often confusing, especially according to whether a
function was supplied by a lib or required to be provided to a lib.
 Since this is a task where you can´t mess things up, I´d volonteer to update
that documentation (is it the latest: (c) says 1994,1998 ? ).

Also related to this topic: The Linux kernel-people are using DocBook to
extract documentation from the source - I think that helps a lot. (lazy me
rather codes than maintains external docs... )

cherio

Uli