Re: named ports - trivfs translator!

2001-06-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 02:44:22AM +0200, Johan Rydberg 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

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 the

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.