On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > I am trying to make sense of the current pfinet, but I don't have the > > Mach/HURD programming basics down. > > > > Is there any place where somebody has written a simple Hello World server > > for the HURD? A Hello World translator? How relavant is the CMU Mach > > documentation to GNU Mach? As you can see I am still trying to get an > > undersatnding of Mach/HURD basics. > > Yes, several, look in <hurd-src>/trans > > > Also I have seen some documentation on a server interface for CMU Mach. > > Would > > this be helpful in HURD hacking? > > Reading the CMU books can be very helpful, however, many interfaces are > different. > > > I do have the HURD links file, but sometimes it is not helpful to have so > > much information. Where would be the best place to start? > > I would recommend the GNU Hurd Reference Manual (found on hurd.gnu.org) and > ``Mach Kernel Principal'' by CMU found at: > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/www/doc/osf.html > > -Neal > > -- > Neal H Walfield > University of Massachusetts at Lowell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks a ton!! Just using hello.c and password.c from the <hurd-src>/trans directory accompanied with the Hurd Reference Manual has helped tremendously. Thansk again, Dan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel E. Baumann E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (caution: dynamic DNS) Web location: http://www.msoe.edu/~baumannd http://www.linuxfreak.com/~baumannd "Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code." -- Dave Olson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------