Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles)

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

ams@kemisten.nu (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:

> * Thomas Bushnell, BSG writes:
> > ams@kemisten.nu (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:
> >> What is/was the idea behind /servers/startup anyway?
> 
> > For the startup.defs interface.  Nowadays we get to the relevant
> > server by looking up the message port for pid 1.  The entry for
> > /servers/startup predated the full-blown message port mechanism, and
> > should probably be deleted.
> 
> Remove the obvious files by hand, as CVS can't handle the removal of
> files without write access.

This is totally wrong.  Remove /servers/startup.  The startup.defs
interface is by no means gone.