On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 03:44:30PM -1000, Brent W. Baccala wrote:
> I've got the CMU code from Mach 3 for netmsg. How do you deal with its
> copyright?
Not sure what you mean. Compare the notice with what we have in
GNU Mach. Personally, I strongly recommend starting from scratch.
This code is us
Well, then I suppose I'll go ahead and get netmsg running on a current Hurd
system. It'll have all kinds of problems, of course, but I've never
written a Hurd translator, so it seems like a good place to start.
I've been trying to get Hurd running on qemu/kvm, but I'm having a lot of
problems wit
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 01:42:16PM -1000, Brent W. Baccala wrote:
> I've been wondering about using Hurd on a cluster computer;
[...]
> If so, then the first step would be to modify Mach,
[...]
Pretty much everything you describe has actually been considered in the
original design of Mach, a
On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 07:34:39PM -1000, Brent W. Baccala wrote:
> Any recent attempts to get netmsg running on GNU Mach? NORMA?
None, recent or otherwise.
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Richard Braun
Richard,
Thanks for the reference to "single system image"; it helped me much to
know what to Google for.
I've looked into the network proxy you described. It seems to have taken
several forms. First, a Mach server called "netmsg" relayed Mach messages
using UDP. The big drawback was the overh
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 01:42:16PM -1000, Brent W. Baccala wrote:
> Can Hurd work, well, in such an environment?
No, it was not designed for this kind of usage, although anything can
be done with enough time and work.
> First, it's basically Mach that would have to be modified, right? Changes
>
