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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. |