Hurd Orientation

2001-06-03 Thread Neal H Walfield
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Re: named ports <-> trivfs translator!

2001-06-03 Thread Johan Rydberg
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > The canonical way to do it on the Hurd is to attach the server to some node > in the filesystem, that means, you write a translator which you attach with > settrans, or you write a program that installs itself as a translator > somewhere. libtrivfs helps a lot for that.

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2001-06-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 10:18:11AM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:54:28PM +0200, alexis chauvin wrote: > > > i've just installed hurd and i'd like to know how to use the man pages > > The easiest answer is probably not the one you're looking for. > > What did you use to

Re: named ports <-> trivfs translator!

2001-06-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:43:37PM +0200, Johan Rydberg wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm thinking about implementing a small server. What is > the easiest way for a client to get the mach-port for the > server? You can advertise your msg port to the proc server with the proc_setmsgport RPC (send it to