Re: Perils of Config Files (was DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd)

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 04:14 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Translators are not called facets.  They are two quite different
> things.  Translators are simply object servers, preferably ones that
> speak the directory and/or file protocols.

Yes. To restate:

  A facet is an interface to some bit of state that permits
  structured access and manipulation of that state.

  A translator is a program that implements the behavior
  of one or more facets.

In EROS/KeyKOS, we do not distinguish between translators and any other
type of object server.


shap