Subject: Linuxss project status
From: "Louis-D. Dubeau" <[email-masked]>
Date: 10 Jun 1994 21:20:54 +0300
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

[ Moderator's note: linuxss is a server for the Mach microkernel based
  on Linux, i.e., more or less a port of Linux to work on top of Mach.
  --liw ]

The linuxss has now split in three different directions:

	-building a single server.

	-building a multiple server.

	-adding Linux compatibility to the Hurd.

While I am working more on the two last options, others are working on
the first option. We hope that despite the differences between the
three directions, there will be strong interraction between people
working on them and that, where possible, design and code will be
shared.

What has been done:

	- Remy Card patched Mach so it now boots from a ext2fs
	partition. (This helps a lot.)

	- I wrote specs for the Linux syscalls (some info still
	missing).

What will be done:

	- I'm beginning work on a Hurd compatible (from Hurd sources)
	ext2 fs server. A umsdos fs server (or Alessandro Forin's
	DOSFS) will follow. This is of use mostly to a ms or Hurd
	implementation.

	- In parallel with the previous point, I'll write ext2fs and
	umsdos (or DOSFS) specs.

	- Daniel Veillard is working on a port of the Linux kernel to a 
	Mach server. This is will lead to a ss implementation, however some
	byproducts of this work might be used in a ms implementation.

For more info take a look at the URL in my sig.

  ldd

|              Louis-Dominique Dubeau <[email-masked]>
|Computer Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (Montreal, Quebec)
|Linux single server project (http://boole.info.polymtl.ca:1500/~hallu/)
|                     -> This sentence is false!!! <-

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