Re: Where will standard IPC be found?

2002-01-27 Thread Niels Möller
Timothy Rue [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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)

Re: Where will standard IPC be found?

2002-01-27 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) writes: There's no plans for anything like arexx-ports, that I know about. But they could be implemented on the hurd using ipc (which for some reason is usually called rpc on the Hurd), and it might be really cute. To do it takes a few different things: IPC

Where will standard IPC be found?

2002-01-25 Thread Timothy Rue
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