Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 21:47:55 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Hurd Message-ID: <200201012047.g01KltU16425@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20020101191456.17623.qmail@linuxmail.org>
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Hi, Sorry for jumping in here. I'm not really a FreeBSD developer, but I've been following the project for quite a long time. Rafter Man <rafter@linuxmail.org> wrote: > [Whether FreeBSD does or will take ideas and features > from Hurd] I think the FreeBSD developers are well aware of useful things in many other operating systems. In today's world, you cannot successfully write a general-purpose operating system without looking at the other players. This includes the guys from the UNIX camp (Solaris, Linux), but also others, even Windows. (If everything else fails, Windows can at least be used as an example of how to _not_ do things.) If Hurd has something useful to share, then why not? Wether a certain feature will be adopted depends on a lot of things, though. First of all, there has to be someone willing to learn and spend time writing code. This is probably the biggest problem for a free open-source project: manpower. And I don't mean people who want to "code something up for fun", but people who are willing to work hard and do things that are not necessarily fun, such as reading dusty papers, learn how to use existing interfaces, reading and adhering to style guides that don't match your own style, writing documentation (manpages) etc. Just out of curiosity: Which particular features of Hurd would you like to see incorporated in FreeBSD? If you can name them, they could be discussed, and maybe someone even picks them up and actually does something. Another possibility is to file a PR (feature request), but you should only do that if you're really sure that FreeBSD does not already have the feature in question or something equivalent. > Fx now users can have more id's and deamons run as "null". I'm sorry I don't quite understand. If you mean that the number of processes that a user is allowed to run can be limited: You can already do that in FreeBSD. You might want to read the login.conf(5) manpage, and particularly the "resource limits" section. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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