Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-15 Thread josef höök
Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > For one of our demos, we ran a file server on a remote linux box (that we > > just had a user account on), mounted it on a kORBit'ized box, and ran > > programs on SPARC Solaris that accessed the kORBit'ized linux box's file > > syscalls. If nothing else, it's pre

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-14 Thread josef höök
I surely hope that this thread wont end here. It's extremely important to look at this since we're heading towards distributed resources, where humans dont work on a server but towards other people through servers. /josef - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-14 Thread josef höök
Chris Lattner wrote: > > > Err shame on you, don't forget about lcall and exceptions, and interrupts, > > > and... That is technically more than _o_n_e_ "entry point". :) Oh wait, > > > what about sysenter/exit too? :) > > OK, you got me on lcall (however, that's iBCS-only, IIRC), but the rest.

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-13 Thread josef höök
Chip Salzenberg wrote: > According to Alexander Viro: > > 9P is quite simple and unlike CORBA it had been designed for taking > > kernel stuff to userland. Besides, authors definitely understand > > UNIX... > > As nice as 9P is, it'll need some tweaks to work with Linux. > For example, it limits

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-12 Thread josef höök
What about implementing 9P instead /joh Michael Rothwell wrote: > Ben Ford wrote: > > > Why would you *ever* want to write a device driver in perl??? > > Well, Perl, I don't know. But the USB 'driver' for my Canon PowerShot > S20 runs in userspace. Seems a safer place to do things. > > -M > -