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| author | jbranso@dismail.de <jbranso@dismail.de> | 2024-05-30 13:29:49 -0400 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2024-06-02 21:05:45 +0200 |
| commit | c3965344c6eab0cb5808320622dfef3414376ee7 (patch) | |
| tree | 6e3797fbdfe3b892ee2692c603107933a1223d3f | |
| parent | f79af5970ba853135b85bfaf044da714a584ae31 (diff) | |
added an image to the hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd page.
* hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.mdwn: I added the image from the
open_issues/anatomy_of_a_hurd_system.mdwn. This page is probably
something that is viewed a lot. People like images.
Message-ID: <20240530173020.2499-5-jbranso@dismail.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.mdwn | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.mdwn b/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.mdwn index 8315bfff..09c26ee7 100644 --- a/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.mdwn +++ b/hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd.mdwn @@ -33,7 +33,14 @@ provides the same standard interfaces known from other [[UNIX]]-like systems. Thus, for a typical user, the Hurd is intended to silently work in the background providing the services and infrastructure which the [[microkernel]] itself has no business implementing, but that are required for higher level -programs and libraries to operate. +programs and libraries to operate. Let's look at an example. + +[[!img open_issues/images/overview.svg]] + +Firefox invokes glibc's `send ()`, which in turn uses the pfinet (or +lwip) TCP/IP stack, which talk to our device drivers (rump or netdde), +which finally talk to GNU Mach. Only GNU Mach runs in kernel space! +Everything else is userspace! The Hurd supplies the last major software component needed for a complete [[GNU_operating_system|running/gnu]] as originally conceived by Richard |