Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Wolfgang Jährling wrote:
> Translators are no kernel modules. They are normal binaries, but with
> special functionality.
What is a binary, really? It's just some file that is based to exec(), and
the kernel being run knows how to 'run' it.
With binfmt_misc in linux, the kernel can be easily extended to run any
arbitrary file. So, in that case, msdos.o can be a binary.
> > However, unlike /hurd, /lib/modules does not contain any reference to the
> > kernel that is being run.
>
> Sorry, I don't see any reference to GNU Mach here.
There is a reference to something specific, 'hurd'. What does GNU Mach have
to do with it.
I see no /debian, no /freebsd.
Or are you arguing for /os/{gnu/{linux,hurd},bsd/{free,net,open},w32}/?
> Of course you do, because you don't understand what /hurd is about. It
> is about the Hurd server binaries, which are started by users and should
> not be hidden in a directory like /lib/you/cant/find/me/.
/lib/modules contains files unique to the kernel being run(in the past, this
was Linux).
Why can't the same dir be used for hurd?
> The reason is that the stuff in there is semantically different from
> everything that exists in Unix and ever will exist in Unix.
You can't honestly predict the future.
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