"M.C. Vernon" wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Martin Quinson wrote: > > > I ask for "books about mach", and he said there is none better than the > > source. > > Maybe, but my question was the bad one. I wanted to ask for "books about > > programming (with/in) the hurd, (maybe include an introduction chapter about > > mach's internal)". I know I can't hack on mach itself (not enougth > > time/motivation), I just want to use it to programm... > > There are postscript files describing Mach 3, which is about as good as it > gets. Programming within is largely like programming within Linux (as far > as the C api goes), though you can't use Linux headers really. Also, hurd > supports threading better and so on.
These files are also published as books by the Open Software Foundation. I saw them in a book store a couple of years ago... Also note that the kernel interface (to Mach) is not the whole story. The hurd has some low-level libraries for example for disk i/o. These are documented in the Hurd Reference Manual. Incomplete, but better than reading the source... Matthias Pfisterer
