Re: libsystemd

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Hello,

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard, on Thu 01 Sep 2016 08:47:44 +0100, wrote:
> >You have forgotten about the existence of Debian Hurd.  (-:
> >
> >* https://jdebp.eu./FGA/hurd-daemons.html#proc
> 
> >The Hurd precisely tries to expose things as files.
> >
> Not in this case.  I pointed earlier to the "pidd".  Debian Hurd doco and
> GNU Hurd doco are really bad, so here's the best of a bad job; the raw API
> for the "libpid":
> 
> * http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/tree/hurd/process.defs

Think of it as system calls, this API provides more or less that.  Pids
also appear in /proc/<pid>, for now nothing has been defined to do
things with them, but that could be.

network boards appear in /dev/eth0, the TCP/IP stack appears in
/servers/socket, etc.

Samuel