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Re: first steps in the Hurd code
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Marcus Brinkmann |
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Re: first steps in the Hurd code |
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Fri, 22 Aug 2003 02:09:47 +0200 |
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:52:07AM +0100, Greg Buchholz wrote:
> how all the pieces fit together yet. All of the talk about ports,
> messages, and translators makes me think of ports, packets, and servers on
> the networking side of things. Does anyone else think that is a valid
> analogy?
Better think about objects and interfaces. Like, if you have an object file,
and an interface io_read, you do file->io_read() to read from the file. The
high level view ignores that this actually has to send a message to a server
that provides file. If you are there, then you can go one level down and
look at CORBA, for example.
> What could be added to that comparasion to make it more correct?
> In general, I think documentation that looks more like English and less
> like code would be very helpful.
return 1; ;)
Marcus
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