From 33b91f458ed0f728933f2d5aa5ec2ae1a86a9d4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@ikr.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:35:48 +0200
Subject: Misc bits from emails by Samuel and Jérémie.
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diff --git a/glibc.mdwn b/glibc.mdwn
index 6c49508f..c7313c1c 100644
--- a/glibc.mdwn
+++ b/glibc.mdwn
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ Porting glibc to a specific architecture is non-trivial.
 
 ## [[Hurd-specific Port|hurd/glibc]]
 
+An important part of the [[Hurd]] actually resides in glibc: here, the POSIX
+interfaces are implemented on top of the [[Hurd IPC protocols|hurd/interface]].
+This is different to the Linux port, where most simple POSIX interfaces are in
+fact simply forwarded to/implemented as [[system_call]]s.
+
 
 # Implementation Details
 
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