``Some'' Mach documentation.

Parts have been rescued from
4b382d8daa5a9e2d54e78c18beeff76bc54dc16b:Mach/MachConcepts.mdwn.

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/microkernel/mach/mig/documentation.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/mig/documentation.mdwn
index be762960..7d4f1eca 100644
--- a/microkernel/mach/mig/documentation.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach/mig/documentation.mdwn
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software
-Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2003, 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]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 This is a small collection of links to external documents describing the *Mach
 Interface Generator* used by GNU Mach.
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Interface Generator* used by GNU Mach.
 
 A tutorial which demonstrates the use of the C Threads library primitives in
 writing a multithreaded program and the use of the Mach Interface Generator
-(MIG) to generate remote procedure calls for interprocess communication.  Like
+(MIG) to generate remote procedure calls for inter-process communication.  Like
 its companion tutorial, it is based on the Mach 2.5 system.  However, the
 concepts are applicable to Mach 3.0 user level programming.
 
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ Slides to Rich Drave's talk on MIG, on November 21, 1991:
 Mig is an implementation of a subset of the Matchmaker **language**.
 
 "Matchmaker is a language for specifying and automating the generation of
-multilingual interprocess communication interfaces.  MIG is an interim
+multilingual inter-process communication interfaces.  MIG is an interim
 implementation of a subset of the Matchmaker language that generates C and C++
-remote procedure call interfaces for interprocess communication between Mach
+remote procedure call interfaces for inter-process communication between Mach
 tasks."
 
 Richard P. Draves, Michael B. Jones, Mary R. Thompson, *MIG - THE MACH
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/mig/gnu_mig.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/mig/gnu_mig.mdwn
index 1bcbd545..0de1bd67 100644
--- a/microkernel/mach/mig/gnu_mig.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach/mig/gnu_mig.mdwn
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2006, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2006, 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]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 GNU MIG is the GNU distribution of the
 [[Mach_3.0_interface_generator_*MIG*|mig]], as maintained by the GNU Hurd
@@ -20,5 +20,9 @@ software in the GNU system that uses Mach-based
 
 GNU MIG is fully compatible with [[OSF_MIG|mig]].
 
+Like its predecessor, it can only generate C code, that has to be compiled and
+linked to client and server programs respectively ([[!taglink
+open_issue_mig]]).
+
   * [[Building]] - building (and obtaining) GNU MIG
   * [[Open Issues|tag/open_issue_mig]]