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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-13 17:11:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-12-13 17:11:51 +0100 |
| commit | 2d75167da62e3486836e5f1773e5f1ab06e43fe8 (patch) | |
| tree | e44fc83e0b1419836d1b21652ad1d38b8d0af2c4 /extensibility.mdwn | |
| parent | 217998d56f5b6424a685f8c87f2c0e924d1c89da (diff) | |
| parent | 5c5c16e265d8ef56b71f319885f32bf144bdea23 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into external_pager_mechanism
Conflicts:
microkernel/mach/external_pager_mechanism.mdwn
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/extensibility.mdwn b/extensibility.mdwn index 80e9fbfc..17cd5e51 100644 --- a/extensibility.mdwn +++ b/extensibility.mdwn @@ -1,24 +1,18 @@ -[[license text=""" -Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] -Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the -terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version -published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no -Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included -in the section entitled [[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl.txt]]. - -By contributing to this page, you agree to assign copyright for your -contribution to the Free Software Foundation. The Free Software Foundation -promises to always use either a verbatim copying license or a free -documentation license when publishing your contribution. We grant you back all -your rights under copyright, including the rights to copy, modify, and -redistribute your contributions. -"""]] +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] An extensible system is one that enables extensibility. Enabling extensibility means providing non-privileged mechanisms to extend existing objects and to -introduce new objects. UNIX is generally not an extensible system as it does -not generally facilitate the hooking of system calls. For instance, there is +introduce new objects. [[UNIX]] is generally not an extensible system as it does +not generally facilitate the hooking of [[system call]]s. For instance, there is no way to hook into the virtual file system. This has motivated the introduction of separate, parallel interfaces by both the GNOME and KDE projects to provide users a more integrated view of their objects. |