What would you like to see most in minix? - comp.os.minix

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Jyrki Kuoppala

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More options 26 Aug 1991, 07:26

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From: j...@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)

Date: 25 Aug 91 23:44:50 GMT

Local: Mon 26 Aug 1991 00:44

Subject: Re: What would you like to see most in minix?

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In article <1991Aug25.205708.9...@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, torvalds@klaava (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:

>I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
>This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and
>I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions
>are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

Tell us more! Does it need a MMU?

>PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
>It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc)

How much of it is in C? What difficulties will there be in porting?
Nobody will believe you about non-portability ;-), and I for one would
like to port it to my Amiga (Mach needs a MMU and Minix is not free).

As for the features; well, pseudo ttys, BSD sockets, user-mode
filesystems (so I can say cat /dev/tcp/kruuna.helsinki.fi/finger),
window size in the tty structure, system calls capable of supporting
POSIX.1. Oh, and bsd-style long file names.

//Jyrki

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