"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> writes: > *wink* how do you purpose to somehow get some kind of interactive > input from the user when you do a file-system call? This is a shortcoming in the design of the Hurd (gasp!). What works is a "user interaction context" widget, passed to servers so that the servers (which might be untrusted) can reliably communicate with users, when the users have an interaction context. Thomas