On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 17:41:28 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as "Kleinmann, Peter G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-12-09-013-20-NW-GN-KN > > this article in LinuxToday is about a corba interface built into the > kernel, allowing user-space servers to handle system calls, etc.
... An interesting proof of concept of what I'd consider a Pretty Daft Idea. It makes some sense to introduce something like this to Hurd, but it's not likely to make it into Linux any time soon. > I don't know how many services are already offered by the HURD, but > kORbit sounds like a nice transitional technology for bringing in more > services developed for linux, and for making future line enhancements > equally available to HURD. > > Any thoughts? I would think it _quite_ sensible to implement an ORB as a Hurd service; this could provide some interesting strategies for the implementation of things like the Implementation Repository; many of the services could be virtualized so that they may look like filesystems. % cd /corba/IR % ls CoSNaming CoSEvent CoSTransaction % cd COSNaming % ls CoSNaming % cd CosNaming % ls structs interfaces exceptions % cd interfaces % ls NamingContext BindingIterator % cd NamingContext % ls structs methods exceptions % cd methods % ls bind rebind bind_context resolve unbind naming_context bind_new_context destroy list % cd rebind % ls in out exceptions returns % cd in % ls n % cat n Name ... Which basically is demonstrating a mapping of the standard Naming Service onto a directory structure... -- (concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@ntlug.org") <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/> Rules of the Evil Overlord #123. "If I decide to hold a contest of skill open to the general public, contestants will be required to remove their hooded cloaks and shave their beards before entering." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/>
