Hi Roland,
On Monday 14 February 2011 18:00:10 Roland McGrath wrote:
> if you don't know the basics of Hurd
> design like the definitions of active and passive translator, then
> you really don't want to be using settrans in the first place.
I disagree. settrans is the basic building block of al
It is self-explanatory.
What it doesn't explain is the entire structure of the system.
На 15.2.2011 г. 18:31 ч., Arne Babenhauserheide написа:
I disagree. settrans is the basic building block of almost everything a user
does in the Hurd (except subhurds), so it should be selfexplanatory where
possible and where it is not, --help should suffice.
Some days ago "(default)" was added
I'd like to point out that the usage of settrans is introduced very
early in the install process of Hurd (especially to get the network up),
and this is only given as a recipe (on the wiki for instance) without
explanation of what it actually does.
In this situation, a new user's first reflex
Etenil, le Tue 15 Feb 2011 17:16:36 +, a écrit :
> On 15/02/11 17:01, Roland McGrath wrote:
> >It is self-explanatory.
> >What it doesn't explain is the entire structure of the system.
I'd still be in favor or replacing "Set NODE's active translator" with
"Start NODE's active translator", to r
> I'd still be in favor or replacing "Set NODE's active translator" with
> "Start NODE's active translator", to remind that it's merely a matter of
> starting a process, and not writing down something in the FS.
That seems reasonable. Setting an active translator does not necessarily
entail start
