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Re: vk_l4 -- CVS Setup
From: |
Farid Hajji |
Subject: |
Re: vk_l4 -- CVS Setup |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Oct 2001 04:33:01 +0100 (CET) |
> > 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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- Re: vk_l4 -- CVS Setup, (continued)
- Re: vk_l4 -- CVS Setup, Farid Hajji, 2001/10/29
- Re: vk_l4 -- CVS Setup, Neal H Walfield, 2001/10/25
- Re: vk_l4 -- CVS Setup, Farid Hajji, 2001/10/29
- Re: vk_l4 -- CVS Setup, Neal H Walfield, 2001/10/30
- Re: vk_l4 -- CVS Setup, Christian Ceelen, 2001/10/25
- Re: vk_l4 -- CVS Setup, Niels Möller, 2001/10/25
- Re: vk_l4 -- CVS Setup,
Farid Hajji <=
- Re: vk_l4 -- CVS Setup, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2001/10/25
- Re: vk_l4 -- CVS Setup, Farid Hajji, 2001/10/29
- Re: vk_l4 -- CVS Setup, Lars Reuther, 2001/10/30
- Re: vk_l4 -- CVS Setup, Farid Hajji, 2001/10/29
- Re: vk_l4 -- CVS Setup, Neal H Walfield, 2001/10/30
- L4 device-driver framework (was Re: vk_l4 -- CVS Setup), Michael Hohmuth, 2001/10/29
Old and new L4 APIs (was Re: L4Hurd at Sourceforge), Michael Hohmuth, 2001/10/29