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[PATCH 5/5] added an image to the hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd page.
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[PATCH 5/5] added an image to the hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd page. |
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Thu, 30 May 2024 13:29:49 -0400 |
* hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.mdwn: I added the image from the
open_issues/anatomy_of_a_hurd_system.mdwn. This page is probably
something that is viewed a lot. People like images.
---
hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.mdwn | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.mdwn b/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.mdwn
index 8315bfff..09c26ee7 100644
--- a/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.mdwn
@@ -33,7 +33,14 @@ provides the same standard interfaces known from other
[[UNIX]]-like systems.
Thus, for a typical user, the Hurd is intended to silently work in the
background providing the services and infrastructure which the [[microkernel]]
itself has no business implementing, but that are required for higher level
-programs and libraries to operate.
+programs and libraries to operate. Let's look at an example.
+
+[[!img open_issues/images/overview.svg]]
+
+Firefox invokes glibc's `send ()`, which in turn uses the pfinet (or
+lwip) TCP/IP stack, which talk to our device drivers (rump or netdde),
+which finally talk to GNU Mach. Only GNU Mach runs in kernel space!
+Everything else is userspace!
The Hurd supplies the last major software component needed for a complete
[[GNU_operating_system|running/gnu]] as originally conceived by Richard
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2.45.1
Re: [PATCH 1/5] hurd: added the terrible-mdns-responder page, Samuel Thibault, 2024/05/30