Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > If you want to improve on it, work on the libchannel abstraction library! > This will be a very important system library, for all character based data > streams in the Hurd. Changing random to use libchannel is not very hard, > and then we have the optimal solution in my opinion.
Yeah, I haven't wanted to say anything yet, but I've been thinking about just going for the real win and working on libchannel. I have the canonical lack of time problem though. But, I want to get sound going too, so this would be the thing to do to accomplish both. Has anyone sketched out an API for libchannel? If not, I will try to do something (I'm sure it will draw some big laughs, but at least we'll have something to talk about ;-) > The other thing that needs to be done is to add a random device to > the oskit-mach branch of gnumach (we don't bother with the current > incarnation of gnumach). This probably means adding a random device to > oskit. This can then be used by random through the libchannel device class. What confluence: I hear tell that oskit has infrastructure for the existing linux sound drivers. But one would want libchannel to do I/O from user space with them. Same for the user space translator that you wrote: put /dev/random in an oskit driver and use libchannel to do I/O with it. And this way the need for user space egd goes away. The spirts seem to want me to work on libchannel ;-) So I'll give it a try. I'll search the archives for libchannel discussions, but if people have info that would help that isn't in the archvies please forward it to me. Thanks, Derek PS: Yes, I am still trying to make time to go to Temple Pl to finish setting up stampede. I will get it done at some point, hopefully soon. I'll be in touch with Jeff Bailey, et al when I can confirm a time. --
