On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 02:32:33AM +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: > "translators" and "servers" are two names for the same thing.
Not quite. Translators are a special kind of servers. There can also be servers which are no translators. The default-pager is an example for this. Another one is the `notice' server which I wrote (see <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2002-05/msg00320.html>, but note that the interfaces has changed since then and it won't work currently). And if you want to be really exact, then (practically) every process in the Hurd is a server, because it has a thread (hidden in glibc) that waits for signals, which are implemented as messages sent to a port... Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
