On Sun, 9 May 1999, Roland McGrath wrote: > Yes, the current hurd version (not 0.2) has the hostmux and ftpfs
I thought 0.2 was the current version ! > Because different parts of the system are implemented in separate server > programs, there is no universal inherent notion of uid and so forth as > there is in a kernel like Linux. The Hurd auth server is the server in > charge of uids and gids, and every other Hurd server talks to the auth > server to figure out the uids and gids of a user process that asks that > server to do something. > > So the short answer is, it's needed because without it there would be no > concept of a UID. Likewise, the proc server (another essential server) is > needed because without it there would be no concept of a PID. auth server is "replacing" uids and gids !? process server is "replacing" pids !? They will be used anyway but not visibles to the hurd users ? Thanks for your help. Regards, Nuno Carvalho
