Re: Mach independence
On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 22:45, Ondrej Hurt wrote:
> What are your thoughts on this subject ?
>
> I think this issue should be solved before people start to write
> HURD-specific (non-POSIX) software. I am not able to do it myself as
> I am no HURD/Mach/L4/whatever expert. I would like to do some coding
> for HURD, no design. I have just begun studying the HURD so I hope i
> didn't blather too much nonsense and sorry for my broken eNgluSh ;-)
Just my 2 cents here, but I think you're thinking on the wrong level.
The Hurd, gnumach, and a lot of this end of the gnu system are young
codebases; it doesn't provide what's needed because it's still in the
early stages of development. Of course, the Hurd has a lot of Mach
specific stuff in it because it's developmental code being developed on
and for Mach. Once it becomes an issue; when people start porting the
Hurd to different microkernels and are forced to deal with the problem,
the approriate solution will present itself. As far as I can see,
there's not really that much that can be done now to help with that.
Given this, it seems like a bit of a null issue.
Bob
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