From c9b7b4b81037f949e05c6e45979904c790a94c97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:17:28 +0200 Subject: hurd/libports: New. With suggestions by Neal. --- hurd.mdwn | 3 ++- hurd/libports.mdwn | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 hurd/libports.mdwn diff --git a/hurd.mdwn b/hurd.mdwn index 24bd97f7..e1bb861d 100644 --- a/hurd.mdwn +++ b/hurd.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ [[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, -2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +2009, 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 @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ in the *unstable* branch of the Debian archive. * RPC [[Interface]]s * Libraries * [[libpager]] + * [[libports]] * [[libstore]] * [[libchannel]] * [[libhello_example]] -- Hurd library example diff --git a/hurd/libports.mdwn b/hurd/libports.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f9aa518f --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/libports.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +[[!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]]."]]"""]] + +*libports* is a convenience library for easier handling of [[Mach +ports|microkernel/mach/port]]. It is documented in the [[Reference_Manual]]. + +*libports* is not (at least, not for now) a generalization / abstraction of +Mach ports to the functionality the Hurd needs, that is, it is not meant to +provide an interface independently of the underlying [[microkernel]]. -- cgit v1.2.3