Hi, On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 02:43:46PM +0100, Garreau, Alexandre wrote:
> I heard that on #hurdfr I think (the ???nightmare??? of pipes and the > fact GNU Hurd would be forced to follow POSIX, also that I remember > having seen braurn doing a minifork of Hurd to experiment features > without following POSIX, I don???t remember the name but it looked > like a proper name???), "x15" is the name he (Richard Braun) uses for his Hurd-related kernel experiments. Note though that the focus of his work has shifted several times over the past years -- so "x15" can actually refer to a couple somewhat different things... Regarding his stance on POSIX, I asked him, and AIUI he actually wants to change some aspects of the core architecture (such as the IPC mechanism) to make it *easier* to fully implement POSIX. -antrik-
