> > > In libports: there are buckets (port sets) and classes (???) what is the > > > difference, how should I interprete classes? > > > > A port class defines how a ``type'' of port is destroyed etc. A port > > bucket is a collection of ports (of any class). > > > This has puzzled me for a while, too. Am I right that (speaking C++) a > port bucket is a container while the port class is in fact a property of a > port(the C++ class)?
One analogy I use is the following: A person needs to send a message to someone else so they hire a messenger. The messenger gets in his vehicle (i.e. his port) and starts it (class: is it a gas car? an electric one? some thing else? Internally they all start differently) and gets on the road that takes him to where he is going (bucket: more than one type of vehicle can travel on a road, however, each road has its own rules, etc.). > Which brings me to another question: The Documentation on the Hurd (hurd.ps) > which I got from the web is often confusing, especially according to whether a > function was supplied by a lib or required to be provided to a lib. > Since this is a task where you can�t mess things up, I�d volonteer to update > that documentation (is it the latest: (c) says 1994,1998 ? ). Please do! > Also related to this topic: The Linux kernel-people are using DocBook to > extract documentation from the source - I think that helps a lot. (lazy me > rather codes than maintains external docs... ) TeX-info is the official text processor for gnu projects. However, I know nothing about DocBook. -Neal -- Neal H Walfield University of Massachusetts at Lowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
