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Re: es decompression hack

To: arnold@cc.gatech.edu, haahr@mv.us.adobe.com (Paul Haahr)
Subject: Re: es decompression hack
From: rsalz@osf.org
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 12:10:47 -0500
Cc: es@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
In-reply-to: Mail from 'arnold@cc.gatech.edu (Arnold Robbins)' dated: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 11:25:14 -0500

> If I understand correctly, the GNU os, being built on top of Mach 3.0,
> will allow exactly this sort of thing, cleanly and securely.

Apollo did this years ago.  It was great, and the built a wonderful
source maintenance system on top of it.

The GNU O/S will let you put user-specified "filters" into the filesystem,
yes.  The design is pretty good.  (I heard Bushnell talk.)  This is
totally off-track, but the hurd design is a good one, and most of the unix
work is in the library and a few key servers.  The Hurd is really the
first real showcase for what the Mach folks thought their system would be
used for.
	/r$

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