Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Thomas Bushnell BSG > > | Now now, "ls" has been working for a long time. We had bash running > | before the system could even boot. > > Amazing. How do you make bash run on a non-booted system? It > certainly sounds zen-ish to me.
The Hurd consists of many servers running on a microkernel. (The microkernel is not part of the Hurd.) We booted the microkernel (then Mach) using the BSD-emulation server from CMU. We could then run some Hurd servers, enough for bash to work, without necessarily having enough servers to bootstrap the whole Hurd. As I recall, what was really necessary was a filesystem server, the proc server, and the exec server. We didn't need authentication, or solid bootstrapping support. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
