------Original Message------ From: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Joe Tennies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: May 9, 2000 8:41:40 AM GMT Subject: Re: I am writing a paper for school about GNU/Hurd... I will send you a copy to On Tue, 09 May 2000 07:56:48 Joe Tennies wrote: > I am a 3rd year Computer Science/ Software Engineering student at the > University of Wisconsin-Platteville. I am in an Operating Systems course in > which I have to write a paper about an operating system, and I chose > GNU/Hurd. Hi chaps I think perhaps I can adjust things a little bit. Forgive my impudence ! > storage management I thought this is meant to cover memory management, is that not in the kernel? in which case the things mentioned here should be in the next topic ?? > auxiliary storage management Surely this means filesystems, at least it did in a book I read a few years ago when I was trying to teach computer studies In which case all the fs stuff above belongs in here ? Those are the Hurdlibraries, libstore, libdiskfs, libtrivfs and servers, ext2fs, ufs, isofs, ... > networks and security" I thought the authentication server was the principal security service within Hurd, ensuring user processes can only access files to which they have been given rights... I thought someone had got the pfinet thing going? if so then there is some kind of networking in The Hurd, albeit it will externally look much the same as a standard Unix offering. Sorry to barge in like this, imho there were some basic defines that were coming over a bit on the inaccurate side. Regards David Denny (r2d2) ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
