Hi, On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 11:45:31PM -0800, Praveen A wrote:
> Glibc sits in between the userspace and mach. It provides the complete > posix api on top of mach. So all the libraries and translators use > glibc. This statement is correct, but a bit misleading: glibc does not provide the POSIX API on top of Mach alone. For many system calls, it contacts various translators -- most notably the low-level Hurd servers, but in case of file operation, of course also the respective filesystem server. (As I already pointed out, calls to other servers go through Mach IPC as well; but unlike actual Mach calls, Mach doesn't handle them itself, but forwards them to the respective server.) Also, glibc not only provides POSIX. It also offers the basic functionality -- mostly used in translators and the Hurd libraries used by translators -- to talk to Mach and to other translators below the POSIX level. Admittedly, this is all pretty confusing :-) -antrik- _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
