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diff --git a/microkernel/mach/deficiencies.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/deficiencies.mdwn
index dcabb56e..1294b8b3 100644
--- a/microkernel/mach/deficiencies.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach/deficiencies.mdwn
@@ -751,3 +751,19 @@ In context of [[open_issues/multithreading]] and later [[open_issues/select]].
       part AIUI, and scheduling contexts can be inherited explicitly too, like
       in EROS (and in a way in Viengoos)
     <braunr> i don't understand viengoos well enough to do it that way
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-04-13
+
+    <braunr> a microkernel loosely based on mach for a future hurd-like system
+    <JoshuaB> ok. no way! Are you in the process of building a micro-kernel
+      that the hurd may someday run on?
+    <braunr> not the hurd, a hurd-like system
+    <JoshuaB> ok wow. sounds pretty cool, and tricky 
+    <braunr> the hurd could, but would require many changes too, and the point
+      of this rewrite is to overcome the most difficult technical performance
+      and scalability problems of the current hurd
+    <braunr> doing that requires deep changes in the low level interfaces
+    <braunr> imo, a rewrite is more appropriate
+    <braunr> sometimes, things done in x15 can be ported to the hurd
+    <braunr> but it still requires a good deal of effort
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print.mdwn
index c0b0d0b3..ca52dca5 100644
--- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print.mdwn
@@ -51,3 +51,11 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
     <youpi> k
     <braunr> if it's fine with you, i'll commit it too
     <youpi> I'm fine
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-04-07
+
+    <braunr> see http://www.sceen.net/~rbraun/mach_print/ for an example to use
+      it
+
+[[Makefile]], [[mach_print.S]], [[main.c]].
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print/Makefile b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8590ef7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+CFLAGS = -O0 -g3
+
+mach_print: main.o mach_print.o
+	gcc -o mach_print main.o mach_print.o
+
+clean:
+	rm -f mach_print *.o
+
+.PHONY: clean
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print/mach_print.S b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print/mach_print.S
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..606a66e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print/mach_print.S
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#include <mach/machine/syscall_sw.h>
+
+kernel_trap(mach_print,-30,1)
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print/main.c b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print/main.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..23b9fc88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print/main.c
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#include <assert.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+void mach_print(char *);
+
+int
+main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+    int size;
+    char *s;
+
+    size = snprintf(NULL, 0, "%s\n", argv[1]);
+    assert(size > 0);
+    s = malloc(size);
+    assert(s != NULL);
+    sprintf(s, "%s\n", argv[1]);
+    mach_print(s);
+    free(s);
+    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+}