Re: Porting Mach syscall/ipc to Linux

[Olaf Buddenhagen]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 09:52:54AM +0100, Luca Dariz wrote:

> has anyone already tried to port or implement the Mach syscalls and ipc
> to Linux?

Someone on IRC mentioned a project recent-ish that apparently works on
implementing some Mach interfaces in Linux, to allow running certain
system services from Darwin (launchd etc.).

While gnumach and Xnu have somewhat diverged, the basic mechanisms are
pretty much the same -- so it shouldn't be too hard to adapt it for Hurd
usage as well I guess...

-antrik-

Re: fosdem talk?

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

That's when I miss the nice quarterly reports we used to have: what's
new since last FOSDEM?

For now I have only noted:

Fixed native fakeroot
Various optimizations
- Node cache
- Lockless reference counting
- IPC table→radix tree
- Kernel memory management
New rpcscan tool

Samuel