oskit random

[Derek L Davies <ddavies@ddavies.net>]

Hi,

Sorry if this is the wrong list, I know about oskit-users, but that
seems pretty dead right now and ultimatly I'm doing this for the
benefit of the hurd.

I've been twiddling with adding the linux random device to oskit.  I'm
making some progress, but mostly I've been learning about oskit.

One thing I've read in the OSKit doc is that the libraries should be
as loosely coupled as possible.  I've tried building the random device
into both liboskit_linux_fs and liboskit_linux_dev but either way I
end up with undefined symbols that come from the other library.  For
instance when I build random into dev (which as far as I can tell is
more correct) I get some undefined stuff from inode.c (update_atime is
one example).  So should I move random into another library or
something?  Then if you want random you must take linux dev and fs as
well?  Yuck.

There are many other issues, but lets start with this.  Thanks for any
thoughts.

Derek