How difficult would it be to switch to another microkernel?

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One would have to reimplement the mach/ and sysdeps/mach/ parts of glibc and libpthread. Quite a few other Hurd tools also assume a Mach kernel and would have to be adapted or rewritten.

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Last edited 2013-04-13 08:36:54 UTC