Re: [PATCH 5/5] added an image to the hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd page.

[jbranso]

May 30, 2024 at 1:29 PM, jbranso@dismail.de wrote:



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> * hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.mdwn: I added the image from the
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> open_issues/anatomy_of_a_hurd_system.mdwn. This page is probably
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> something that is viewed a lot. People like images.

I added in some text for the image.  I've attached the image.  If you'd
me send a git patch let me know.  But I feel like it would be easier
just to send you the updated image.

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