Re: Existing translators

[Wolfgang Jährling]

Hi!

Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@utbm.fr> wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann's talk is available on http://hurd.gnu.org and the
> (unofficial) Hurd Hacking Guide can be found at
> http://www.8ung.at/shell/hhg.html . BTW, I think this guide is really
> a good idea; however, it lacks an example for libnetfs. ;)

Send me an example with explanations and I'll be happy to include it. :)

> Any idea of which translator in the Hurd source tree would be a good
> one to look at to get a feel of libnetfs?

I would suggest ftpfs and Moritz' shadowfs.

> > If someone is really interested I am willing to make the code more readable
> > and upload it somewhere :). 

While Marcus run-translator is a more flexible solution, example code is
always a good thing.

> I think it would be nice if we could have some kind of a central
> repository where we could put all the translators that have been
> written so far, including the fortune translator of course. ;)

Are you willing to maintain such a repository?

Cheers,
GNU/Wolfgang

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