hurd/libports: New.

With suggestions by Neal.

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/hurd.mdwn b/hurd.mdwn
index 24bd97f7..e1bb861d 100644
--- a/hurd.mdwn
+++ b/hurd.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+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
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ in the *unstable* branch of the Debian archive.
 * RPC [[Interface]]s
 * Libraries
   * [[libpager]]
+  * [[libports]]
   * [[libstore]]
   * [[libchannel]]
   * [[libhello_example]] -- Hurd library example
diff --git a/hurd/libports.mdwn b/hurd/libports.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f9aa518f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hurd/libports.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+*libports* is a convenience library for easier handling of [[Mach
+ports|microkernel/mach/port]].  It is documented in the [[Reference_Manual]].
+
+*libports* is not (at least, not for now) a generalization / abstraction of
+Mach ports to the functionality the Hurd needs, that is, it is not meant to
+provide an interface independently of the underlying [[microkernel]].