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diff --git a/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.mdwn b/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.mdwn index e5c8c160..bbfb3649 100644 --- a/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.mdwn +++ b/hurd/documentation/translator_primer.mdwn @@ -34,6 +34,15 @@ To try out the simplest of translators, you can go the following simple steps: "Hello World!" $ settrans -g hello $ cat hello + $ + $ fsysopts hello + /hurd/hello --contents='Hello World! + ' + $ fsysopts hello --contents='Hello GNU! + > ' + $ cat hello + Hello GNU! + $ What you do with these steps is first verifying that the file "hello" is empty. @@ -41,6 +50,10 @@ Then you setup the translator /hurd/hello in the file/node hello. After that you check the contents of the file, and the translator returns "Hello World!". +Because you are a curious hacker, you wonder what filesystem options this node has. It turns +out that the hello translator uses a "contents" option. We can change what the hello +translator returns with another call to fsysopts. + To finish it, you remove the translator from the file "hello" (and tell any active running instances to go away) |