Hi, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A filesystem based interface is much easier to use for most programmers > than generic RPCs. It's easier to use from a shell, not from a C program. > In this particular case however I don't see the need for a specialised > RPC interface -- neither is performance critical, nor do we have > complicated relationships that could be better expressed by such an > interface... My understanding is that the Hurd's way is to use a new RPC interface whenever using the `io' interface would be non-trivial or cumbersome (e.g., `password', `auth', etc.). Thanks, Ludovic.