Amirouche Boubekki <amirou...@hypermove.net> writes: > On 2018-08-26 20:16, Joshua Branson wrote: >> Amirouche Boubekki <amirou...@hypermove.net> writes: >> >
Thanks for taking the time to write me a informational response. I really appreciate it. > Sorry, I don't know what is a GNU/Hurd translators. A GNU/Hurd translator is a userspace process, that runs on the GNU/Hurd, but implements usual kernel functionality. https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/translator.html So there is an ext2fs translator running on the Hurd. It runs as a userspace process. There are really trivial translators that you could create. One is the hello translator. https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/translator/hello.html The basic example is here: #+BEGIN_SRC sh $ touch hello $ cat hello $ settrans -a /hurd/hello hello $ cat hello hello $ settrans -g ./hello $ cat hello Hello World! #+END_SRC Basically, you are telling the kernel, that anytime someone wants to look at the hello ~/hello, they need to call the /hurd/hello program first. Regardless of the "~/hello"'s content, users will see "Hello World!" It gets really interesting when you start telling these processes to transform the underlying data. They currently have a translator that translates an xml file into a directory tree. Imagine searching an html file with the "find" tool. Wouldn't that be something different? > >> >>> >>>> as good as w3schools.com? >>> >>> You might not be aware that w3schools has a bad reputation of being >>> "loosy". That said I find it >>> convenient as quick and dirty reference. I recommend to check mozilla >>> developer network aka. mdn >>> when it comes to web stuff. >> >> What do you mean by "loosy?" > > Sorry, I just repeated what I read elsewhere. What I should have said is that > w3cshools is not the > only source of information regarding web. But say, for instance, its xpath > tutorials are nice. Nowdays > I use MDN more often than w3cschools. I've heard the same thing. w3schools is like a really dumbed down version of MDN. I guess I just need to learn how to learn better. > >>> What do you want to make? >> >> It would be cool to help work on an official GNU distro, using a kernel >> that is NOT linux. Linux is cool and good, but I'm not a fan of its >> monolithic nature. >> > > Monolitihc has its advantages whatever you think monolith means. See for > instance, > this convo and article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17499137 > > I can not stop you from looking into Hurd, but I can not help you. Maybe try > hurd mailing list or guix-help. That's a good idea. I did actually post there as well. I just had a goal this week to ask some smart people for advice. There are a lot of smart people on this mailing list. :) > > > See you around!
