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Re: The Hurd: what is it?
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Thomas Bushnell BSG |
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Re: The Hurd: what is it? |
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Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:38:01 -0800 |
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"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
> The facts are that even a person like me who has been around these
> parts for an awfully long time doesn't even know what the heck to
> spend time on. It isn't something as trivial as deciding if one
> should fix rpctrace to be a bit saner, fixing tmpfs, maybe just
> improving Mach, or deciding how some internal part of exec should be
> handled. It is about a whole different code base. If the code bases
> were API compatible, then all would be good, but they aren't and
> probobly won't be even close to compatible.
I think the answer to this question is: we don't know.
Work on the L4 codebase is valuable in my opinion; work on the Mach
codebase is valuable. They are both valuable in different ways, and I
think that there is not a good reason to regard them as so separable.
- The Hurd: what is it?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/11/08
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Marcus Brinkmann, 2005/11/08
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/11/08
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Sergio Lopez, 2005/11/08
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Marcus Brinkmann, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Ludovic Courtès, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Ludovic Courtès, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Bas Wijnen, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/11/09
- Re: The Hurd: what is it?, Bas Wijnen, 2005/11/09