On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 07:51:04AM +0200, Daniel de Kok wrote: > Lately I'm interested in programming the Hurd, I've read the source, refence > manual, etc. Right now I want to try to do some GNU Mach server programming. I > thought creating a http GNU Mach server (instead of a daemon) would be a good > thing to start with, is it?!?
Mmmh. I am not sure what you mean. Do you want to write a web server that can only run on Mach? I am not sure which purpose this should serve. In which areas would this server perform better? It's probably more useful and not so difficult to write a httpfs, a filesystem server that "mounts" a http tree to some inode, just as ftpfs does with ftp directories. Take a look at the ftpfs server in the Hurd source. Apart from that, writing translators (Mach servers) using the Hurd libraries is certainly the central point of the Hurd, and I hope you will have fun writing dozen of servers :) Thanks, Marcus
