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diff --git a/microkernel/for_beginners/discussion.mdwn b/microkernel/for_beginners/discussion.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6cb23cfb --- /dev/null +++ b/microkernel/for_beginners/discussion.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 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]]."]]"""]] + +Good day. + +I am a developer, have some c knowledge, and in perspective hope to be able to make a contribution in Hurd kernel. At the moment I consider myself as a beginner. + +My question is about the second exercise. + +>Implement your own pager. Write a server that synthesizes content on the fly and have a client map the object into its address space and print out the file. + +* Is it targeted to Mach or to an arbitrary OS? +* The second sentence "Write a server that..." is too long and too difficult for me to understand perhaps because English is not my native language. Could you please explain it in a little bit easier phrases? +* Am I write that in a given context pager means just memory allocator? |