Re: Some Hurd and Mach programming questions

2000-05-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 01:24:13PM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > 1. > > How accurate are 1987-1989 CMU Mach papers if GNU Mach is considered. > > Depends entirely on what specific issue you look at. > For example, the Hurd has no nameserver,

Re: Some Hurd and Mach programming questions

2000-05-19 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 02:45:44AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: > From: Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Some Hurd and Mach programming questions > Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:37:04 +0200 > > > How much of IPCing really needs MIG and > > co

Re: Some Hurd and Mach programming questions

2000-05-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 02:28:14PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > I don't know what "current" means to you, though. All Hurd servers are > multithreaded and usually serve multiple users/processes. Reading Marks reply, I am enlightened. Forget this part of my message :) Marcus

Re: Some Hurd and Mach programming questions

2000-05-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 01:24:13PM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > 1. > How accurate are 1987-1989 CMU Mach papers if GNU Mach is considered. Depends entirely on what specific issue you look at. For example, the Hurd has no nameserver, but it has (still) cthreads, and the client/server basics

Re: Some Hurd and Mach programming questions

2000-05-19 Thread Mark Kettenis
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 13:24:13 +0200 From: Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mach/MIG related : 1. How accurate are 1987-1989 CMU Mach papers if GNU Mach is considered. I'm not entirely sure. Some of these papers are probably discussing things about Mach 2.5 and may be

Re: Some Hurd and Mach programming questions

2000-05-19 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 02:19:40PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: >Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 13:24:13 +0200 >From: Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Mach/MIG related : > >3. >How good is MIG ? >What special, non-obvious features are really in use if >compared to

Re: Some Hurd and Mach programming questions

2000-05-19 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Some Hurd and Mach programming questions Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 18:37:04 +0200 > How much of IPCing really needs MIG and > couldn't be done by some set cpp macros or other way that > don't need inventing a new la

Some Hurd and Mach programming questions

2000-05-19 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
Mach/MIG related : 1. How accurate are 1987-1989 CMU Mach papers if GNU Mach is considered. 2. Are filesystem protocol and other basic client-to-server protocols hard-coded in Mach or reside completely in Hurd ? 3. How good is MIG ? What special, non-obvious features are really in use if compar