From 4b7dd82cf60a684b2b2e876b940b2c47b1adf549 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:15:35 +0000 Subject: --- microkernel/for_beginners/discussion.mdwn | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 microkernel/for_beginners/discussion.mdwn (limited to 'microkernel/for_beginners') 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? -- cgit v1.2.3 From 91254512302ce8199fec8f39758788132df10fb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:17:28 +0000 Subject: --- microkernel/for_beginners/discussion.mdwn | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'microkernel/for_beginners') diff --git a/microkernel/for_beginners/discussion.mdwn b/microkernel/for_beginners/discussion.mdwn index 6cb23cfb..6d0d5f40 100644 --- a/microkernel/for_beginners/discussion.mdwn +++ b/microkernel/for_beginners/discussion.mdwn @@ -16,6 +16,5 @@ 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? -- cgit v1.2.3 From d977126f2478f0ae22b28c64c100203ecfb2b862 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:47:38 +0000 Subject: --- microkernel/for_beginners/discussion.mdwn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'microkernel/for_beginners') diff --git a/microkernel/for_beginners/discussion.mdwn b/microkernel/for_beginners/discussion.mdwn index 6d0d5f40..9831796b 100644 --- a/microkernel/for_beginners/discussion.mdwn +++ b/microkernel/for_beginners/discussion.mdwn @@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ 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. * 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? +* Am I write that in a given context "pager" means just "memory manager"? -- cgit v1.2.3