I'll try to field this. On Sun, 9 May 1999, Ashutosh S. Rajekar wrote:
> Could anyone tell me if Hurd has its own syscalls (POSIX type), or > does it use the syscalls provided by the Mach4 microkernel. It uses the "syscalls" provided by GNUMach, a derivative of Mach X (I don't remember off the top of my head if it was 3 or 4). > Also tell me if Hurd will continue to run on top of Mach4, or will it > run independantly, like Linux. Since it is running on Mach4 (and > presumably in the future also), I presume all of the Hurd maintainers > write essentially Mach4 code using Mach4 syscalls, to run what is known > as the Hurd OS which is really only a set of Mach4 programs. An effort is being made to make the Hurd microkernel neutral by abstracting common microkernelisms into a library (libmom) which the Hurd will run on top of (or which it already does, I'm going by data that's a year or so old). I'm open to corrections or clarifications. --Michael Bacarella
