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+IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-11-12:
+
+    <sea4ever> So hurd implements a 'transparent translator' somewhere which
+      just passes all IO calls to the posix IO I'm used to? (i.e. read, write,
+      open, close, etc.?)
+    <youpi> it's the normal way of operation
+    <youpi> glibc's read() doesn't do a system call, it always does an RPC to
+      the underlying translator
+    <youpi> be it ext2fs for /, or your foobarfs for your node
+    <sea4ever> Ok that makes sense. How does one program know which translator
+      it should refer to though?
+    <sea4ever> the read() call magically knows which process to invoke?
+    <youpi> the / translator is always known
+    <youpi> and then you ask /'s translator about /home, then /home/you, then
+      /home/you/foobar
+    <youpi> it tells you which other translator tyou have to contact
+    <youpi> that's on open
+    <sea4ever> It's a tree! Ok.
+    <youpi> the notion of fd is then simply knowing the translator
+    <sea4ever> Right. 'file descriptor' is now 'translator address descriptor'
+      maybe.
+    <youpi> it's glibc which knows about FDs, nothing else knows
+    <youpi> yes
+    <youpi> actually an RPC port, simply
+    <sea4ever> I want to try out the new RPC mechanism that mach implements
+    <youpi> err, which "new" RPC ?
+    <youpi> mach's RPCs are very old actually :)