On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Christopher Browne wrote: > 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. I think it sounds like a pretty nice idea, but not somethng you'd really use. That they haven't implemented security is pretty daft though. > > It makes some sense to introduce something like this to Hurd, but > it's not likely to make it into Linux any time soon. Well, it's in the GNU task list for the HURD. > > > 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. > [snip] > ... Which basically is demonstrating a mapping of the standard > Naming Service onto a directory structure... Could be good for CORBA aware shell scripts :)
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