From 8ee2bea27be08bf635afc9170fecb87b23d84eb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 17:14:29 +0100
Subject: Add a lot of links

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 hurd-paper.html | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'hurd-paper.html')

diff --git a/hurd-paper.html b/hurd-paper.html
index 880f5fca..0a47bbef 100644
--- a/hurd-paper.html
+++ b/hurd-paper.html
@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ The design and implementation of the Hurd is being lead by Michael
 Bushnell, with assistance from Richard Stallman, Roland McGrath,
 Jan Brittenson, and others.
 
+<a name=design>
 <H2>Part 1: A More Usable Approach to OS Design</H2>
+</a>
 <P>
 The fundamental purpose of an operating system (OS) is to enable a variety of
 programs to share a single computer efficiently and productively.
@@ -148,7 +150,9 @@ None of the remaining services carry any special
 status; not the network implementation, the filesystems, the program
 execution mechanism (including setuid), or any others.
 
+<a name=translator>
 <H3>The Translator Mechanism</H3>
+</a>
 <P>
 The Hurd uses Mach ports primarily as methods for communicating between users
 and servers.
@@ -324,7 +328,9 @@ those semantics to allow users to improve, bypass, or replace them.
 
 
 <H2>Part 2: A Look at Some of the Hurd's Beasts</H2>
+<a name=auth>
 <H3>The Authentication Server</H3>
+</a>
 <P>
 One of the Hurd's more central servers is the authentication server.
 Each
@@ -363,7 +369,9 @@ we have designed its interface to make any safe operation possible, and to
 include no extraneous operations.
 (This is why there is a separate password
 server.)
+<a name=proc>
 <H3>The Process Server</H3>
+</a>
 <P>
 The process server acts as an information categorization repository.
 There
@@ -419,7 +427,9 @@ Those process server features which do not require root privileges
 to be implemented could be done as per-user servers.
 The user's hands are
 not tied.
+<a name=ftpfs>
 <H3>Transparent FTP</H3>
+</a>
 <P>
 Transparent FTP is an intriguing idea whose time has come.
 The popular
@@ -429,7 +439,8 @@ virtually transparent to all the Emacs file manipulation functions.
 Transparent FTP does the same thing, but in a system wide fashion.
 This
 server is not yet written; the details remain to be fleshed out, and will
-doubtless change with experience.
+doubtless change with experience [Note: since the writing of this, ftpfs was
+implemented and works as described here]
 <P>
 In a BSD kernel, a transparent FTP filesystem would be no harder to write
 than in the Hurd.
@@ -492,7 +503,9 @@ more /ftp/ftp.uu.net/inet/rfc/rfc1097.
 </CODE>
 A copy command to a local disk
 could be used if the RFC would be read frequently.
+<a name=fs>
 <H3>Filesystems</H3>
+</a>
 <P>
 Ordinary filesystems are also being implemented.
 The initial release of the
@@ -529,7 +542,9 @@ deficiencies.
 There will also be various ``little'' filesystems, such as the
 MS-DOS filesystem, to help people move files between GNU and other OSs.
 
+<a name=term>
 <H3>Terminals</H3>
+</a>
 <P>
 An I/O server will provide the terminal semantics of Posix.
 The GNU C
@@ -574,7 +589,9 @@ Instead they will be using the
 underlying Mach device ports for terminals, which support moving large
 amounts of data efficiently.
 
+<a name=exec>
 <H3>Executing Programs</H3>
+</a>
 <P>
 The implementation of the
 <CODE>execve</CODE>
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