Re: vk_l4 -- CVS Setup

[Farid Hajji]

> > Is it possible to have more than on Hurd-nameserver within the same
> > local system?
> Remember that the "hurd name server" is the entire filesystem. The
> filesystem as seen by a process is primarily the server for "/" (which
> may be different for different processes, for example if you use
> chroot). When translators are installed in that filesystem, they get
> authority over the namespace under the point where they were
> installed. If you mount an ext2 translator on /mnt, and an ftp
> translator on /ftp, they get authority for the subnamespaces /mnt/*
> and /ftp/* respectively.
> 
> Name resolution is the dir_lookup rpc, and it's a little more
> complicated than a flat name->port lookup, as there may be arbitrary
> delegations (translators) and redirections (symlinks) on the way.
Exactly! That is also the reason why it is not so easy to extract
the nameserver of the Hurd from the rest of the system.

-Farid.

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