Re: Hurd translators on BSD

[Sergiu Ivanov]

Hello,

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:13:18AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 22:57:32 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov:
> > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 08:25:54AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 07:51:17 schrieb arnuld uttre:
> > > Does anyone know how the "Hurd translators on BSD" project did work out?
> > 
> > I heard of translator on NetBSD only and this is what I found this
> > spring: http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/hurdt/ .
> 
> I just sent a mail to the author to ask if he's still working on it. 

Great :-) Though having translators on top of a monolithic kernel
seems kind of exotic to me.

I wonder whether it is reasonable to try FUSE to implement
translators.  I've never been much into FUSE, but the Wikipedia
article says that ``FUSE is particularly useful for writing virtual
file systems'', which, AIUI, is precisely the matter of interest for
most translators.  (At least FUSE filesystems like GmailFS,
WikipediaFS, archivemount sound a lot like actual translator names.)
 
> > However, when I tried to knock on the doors of the NetBSD project with
> > questions and suggestions about translators I received *no* answer
> 
> Could also be that your mail was overlooked... happens at times. I'd
> just wait two weeks and then ask again.

Hm, it didn't occur to me that such things may indeed happen :-)
Thanks for pointing out :-)

However, I'm afraid I won't devote time to writing another mail to the
NetBSD community, because I won't be able to back it with any working
hours.

Regards,
scolobb