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| author | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2013-01-08 21:08:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2013-01-08 21:08:28 +0100 |
| commit | 160d0597cb94d58f8ab273226b1f3830589a500b (patch) | |
| tree | 5502768f18d0f83acdeea820842cfbf1550b6ee3 | |
| parent | 0a607c5c7bab130bfff70efd344bff78ce2bf88a (diff) | |
hurd/translator: Implementation languages.
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/translator.mdwn | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/translator.mdwn b/hurd/translator.mdwn index 37f4e8bc..e0baf130 100644 --- a/hurd/translator.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software -Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Free +Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ the socket API calls (which are mapped by [[glibc]] to equivalent RPC calls)*, compared to *a [[libdiskfs]]-based translator implements a filesystem, based on a backing store*. +As a translator is not different from any other user-space application, it can +be written in any programming language. The practicable constraint is that an +interface suitable for doing [[RPC]]s should exist, which currently only exists +for C ([[microkernel/mach/MIG]]). For Lisp, Perl, [[user/jkoenig/Java]] there +so far are only experimental and incomplete implementations. + To learn how to write a translator, read the code! It is well documented, in particular, the header files. The [[Hurd_Hacking_Guide]] also has a tutorial. |