Hello again! On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:39:09PM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote: > While translating this document into german I noticed some small > glitches I'd now like to point out to you for review. I'm sorry for replying to myself, but here is a more complete patch. Cheers, Flo
--- hurd-doc-translator.wml.orig 2003-08-28 12:57:53.000000000 +0200 +++ hurd-doc-translator.wml 2004-02-27 23:13:33.000000000 +0100 @@ -13,14 +13,14 @@ <h3><a href="#TOC_concept" name="concept">Concept</a></h3> <p> Before we take a closer look at translators, let us consider regular -filesystems. A filesystem is store for a hierarchical tree of directories +filesystems. A filesystem is a store for a hierarchical tree of directories and files. You access directories and files by a special character string, the path. Furthermore, there are symbolic links to refer to one file at several places in the tree, there are hard links to give one and the same file several names. There are also special device files for communication with the hardware device drivers of the kernel, and there are mount points to include other stores in the directory tree. Then there are obscure -objects like fifos and hard links.</p> +objects like FIFOs.</p> <p> Although these objects are very different, they share some common properties, for example, they have all an owner and a group associated with @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ different ways. In other words, a translator is a Hurd server which provides the basic filesystem interface.</p> <p> -Translators have very interesting properties. From the kernels point of +Translators have very interesting properties. From the kernel's point of view, they are just another user process. This means, translators can be run by any user. You don't need root privileges to install or modify a translator, you only need the access rights for the underlying inode the @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ <h4>Passive Translators</h4> <p> A passive translator is set and modified with the same syntax as the active -translator (just leave away the <code>-a</code>, so everything said above is +translator (just leave away the <code>-a</code>), so everything said above is true for passive translators, too. However, there is a difference: passive translators are not yet started.</p> <p> @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ count=8; mke2fs dummy.fs</code> and "mount" it with <code>settrans -c dummy /hurd/ext2fs `pwd`/dummy.fs</code>. Note that the translator is not started yet, no new <code>ext2fs</code> process is running (verify with <code>ps -Aux</code>). Check that everything is correct using <code>showtrans</code></p> +Aux</code>). Check that everything is correct using <code>showtrans</code>.</p> <p> Now type <code>ls dummy</code> and you will notice the short delay that occurs while the translator is started. After that, there will be no more
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