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The name Hurd stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons." The name Hird stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth."
The term bootstrapping refers to a Dutch legend about a boy who was able to fly by pulling himself up by his bootstraps. In computers, this term refers to any process where a simple system activates a more complicated system.
The GRand Unified Bootloader, available from http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/.
Note that this function will be deleted when the Mach pager interface is fixed to provide this information.
The
latter portion of <hurd/io.defs> and all of
<hurd/shared.h> describe how to implement shared-memory I/O
operations. However, shared I/O has been deprecated. See section Conch Management, for more details.
The number 1 corresponds to the
PF_LOCAL C library socket domain constant.
It is important to note that device drivers are not provided by the Hurd, but by the underlying microkernel. Hurd `devices' are just storeio-translated nodes which make the microkernel device drivers obey Hurd semantics. If you wish to implement a new device driver, you will need to consult the appropriate microkernel documentation.
"RAID" stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks: several disks used in parallel to achieve increased capacity, redundancy and/or performance.
You are lost in a maze of twisty little filesystems, all alike….
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