Stephan Trebels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From what I understand, the Hurd still has a static view of the > namespace, even if enhanced by translators. Unless you count > fakeroot, of course.
Quite right. When asked about the per-process namespaces of Plan 9, and whether the Hurd has that, I used to say something like "fakeroot will solve that". That's about 50% dodge and 50% real. > What Thomas is probably referring to, is, that all control commands > (actually most) are replaced by read and write of ascii commends to > files. E.g. to connect to a server via TCP you can use something like > echo 'dial 1.2.3.4!2' >/net/tcp/clone, or the like. A bit like the > /proc filesystem in Linux, but used throughout. Exactly right. _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
