Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

[Samuel Thibault]

Svante Signell, le Mon 17 Sep 2012 12:48:14 +0200, a écrit :
> As I replied to Samuel, I'm not too fond of browsing web pages to find
> information scattered in many places, not as an introduction to Hurd.
> Where is the complete (tutorial) pdf to download and print out?

A tutorial for what?

That's a recurring problem with the very notion of "tutorial". A
tutorial can only have only one goal, or else it's not a tutorial any
more.  But an operating system is not just one goal, there are a lot
of things which fit together, and one has to learn them one after the
other, sticking the parts together.  A tutorial can *not* provide that.
Only scattered documentations can, and the reader has to glue them
together, at worse by asking questions on IRC to make the links between
them.  I do agree that transversal documentations like rpc.mdwn and
io_path.mdwn are useful (that's why I wrote them).  But there can not be
a "definite tutorial to understand everything".  That can not exist.

Samuel