summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/hurd
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'hurd')
-rw-r--r--hurd/libstore.mdwn7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/libstore.mdwn b/hurd/libstore.mdwn
index 45fc0860..7cdadc1e 100644
--- a/hurd/libstore.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/libstore.mdwn
@@ -9,8 +9,11 @@ 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]]."]]"""]]
-`libstore` is used to provide a generic interface to access data (read/write)
-on backing stores.
+`libstore` is used to provide a generic interface to access data (read/write) on
+backing stores. This library implements many different backends which allow the
+abstract store interface to be used with common types of storage -- devices,
+files, memory, tasks, etc. It also allows stores to be combined and filtered in
+various ways.
It more than just a thin layer between [[GNU Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach]]
devices (`hd0` for example) and the device node below `/dev/`...