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Re: How to create a Hurd translator?


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: How to create a Hurd translator?
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 20:21:37 +0200
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Almudena Garcia, le lun. 20 avril 2020 19:58:11 +0200, a ecrit:
> > Telling the kernel how it should behave does not have to be done by a
> > translator, it can be a mere program as well.
> 
> But, how can I run this program automatically in the system boot?
> If I run the program as a service (sysvinit service), this can be dependant of
> the distribution (in this case, Debian), is not?

Yes. But that's the same for the Mach console configuration, configuring
the network, starting X, etc.

> And this approach doesn't seems very secure.

Do not confuse "secure" and "robust" :)

A lot of things get configured and started from sysvinit etc. Personally
I find it more explicit and thus approachable by users than e.g. the
exec/proc/startup translators that get automagically started at
bootstrap :)

Almudena Garcia, le lun. 20 avril 2020 20:11:40 +0200, a ecrit:
> > Are there any other way to "hang" a program of Hurd without create a
> > translator?
> Excuse me. My idea is to raise this program from Hurd (with "hang" I'm not
> referring to "crash")

Making it a program start by an initialization script looks reasonable
enough to me.

It could also be a translator in that it could expose files to control
the multi-processor, e.g. enable/disable cores etc., like the hurd
console client exposes /dev/vcs to have some control over it, but for me
that's really secondary compared to just enabling SMP.

Samuel



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