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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
+2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 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
+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]]."]]"""]]
+
+Certain [[translator]]s do not need to be very complex, because they represent
+a single file rather than an entire directory hierarchy.  The *trivfs library*,
+which is declared in `<hurd/trivfs.h>`, does most of the work of implementing
+this kind of translator.  This library requires the [[iohelp|libiohelp]] and
+[[ports|libports]] libraries.
+
+Using `libtrivfs` is not the only way to implement such a single-file
+translator, but is a convenient abstraction: the library hides a lot of
+low-level stuff and you just have to provide a number of call-back functions
+and symbols in order to get a functioning (for file I/O, etc.) node in the file
+system.
+
+
+# Further Reading
+
+  * In the *[[The_GNU_Hurd_Reference_Manual|reference_manual]]*:
+    <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/doc/hurd_6.html#SEC48>.
+
+  * In the *[[Hurd_Hacking_Guide]]*:
+    <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/hhg.html#An-Example-using-trivfs>.