In porting the Hurd to other Microkernels I wonder where it puts the use of IPC. I see IPC is pretty heavy in use in Mach but hardley mentioned in L4 and I do understand IPC is important in the Hurd.
IS there going to be a standard within the Hurd that allows an application programmer to add an end user oriented port to their program, in a simplified consistant manner? (i.e. as is found in the ease of adding an arexx port to amiga applications) As an end user, I want to be able to send commands to a programs port and control it, from where ever outside the program, that I may. This way I can create a script using the vocabulary of the program(s) and automate the program(s) perhaps in concert. Making it easy to add such a port to open source programs will be extreamly helpful. I don't know, maybe a server to handle such port usage and the skeleton code for application port installation ease, is all that is needed? Is this a reasonable possibility, or would such IPC functionality be found already existing deeper, and usable in such a manner, within the Hurd? (regardless of what kernel or microkernel it is ported to) Tim
