web commit by hammy: Removed ``translator stacking mechanism''. Already assigned to Carl Fredrik Hammar.

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-* translator stacking mechanism
-
-One of the major strengths of the Hurd design is that not only it uses a
-modular (multiserver) architecture internally, but also encourages a similar
-modular architecture at application level. Complex applications can be created
-intuitively from simple components by combining them through translator
-stacking -- similar to traditional UNIX pipes, but much more suitable for
-complex interaction and structured data.
-
-The downside is that communication between the components with filesystem- or
-other RPC interfaces imposes a relatively high overhead: Not only are the
-actual IPC operations relatively slow in Mach, but also communication is
-generally more complicated because of the constraints of an RPC interface.
-
-In some cases, like network stacks for example, the overhead might prove a
-serious problem; a mechanism that allows cutting down on it by more or less
-transparently, taking a shortcut in certain situations to avoid actual RPC, is
-highly desirable.
-
-The work on [[libchannel]] as a special-purpose translator stacking mechanism
-as last year's GSoC project yielded some very interesting ideas for a more
-generic translator stacking framework.
-
-(links)
-
-The task here is to follow up on the previous work, creating a framework based
-on these ideas, and implementing or porting some translators based on this
-framework to prove it's applicability in practice. It is up to the student to
-decide whether it's better to start with the previous libchannel code, turning
-it into something more generic; or starting from scratch, using libchannel (and
-libstore) only for reference.
-
-This task is pretty involved. The architecture of the stacking framework has
-been discussed before; but the student needs to design the various actual
-interfaces for the framework, and implement all of them.
-
-Last years student might be able to get this done before GSoC starts.  If
-you're interested in this project send a mail to
-[Carl Fredrik Hammar](mailto:hammy.lite@gmail.com) to make sure he has not
-already gotten started with it.
-
 * sound support
 
 The Hurd presently has no sound support. Fixing this requires two steps: One is