Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff

2009-02-22 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:46:38PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 23/01/2009, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net > wrote: > > Design and feasible use cases are *not* orthogonal in practice. > > They are certainly not. I never said they are. You did imply it, by repeatedly claiming that all we wan

Filter design for nsmux (was: What shall the filter do to bottommost translators)

2009-02-22 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:01 PM, wrote: > As I already pointed out, sooner or later we will problably need some > framework to conflate simimlar translator instances in a single process > -- while dynamic translators are likely to make the problem evident in > many cases, the problem its

Re: the virtual device management in eth-multiplexer

2009-02-22 Thread Zheng Da
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:33 PM, wrote: > > No, it's not! > > I explicitely said that the node is *not* discarded when it is still > used, i.e. when the device it represents is still open. It is only > discarded when there are *no* users anymore, i.e. neither references to > the node itself, nor t