By convincing the right people that it was relevant to my course :) Also, Glendix was the culmination of my Bachelor "major project".
Yes, it is sometimes possible to do useful work in academia. Gasp!
Yes, it is sometimes possible to do useful work in academia. Gasp!
/net is a good example of how sockets are done away with, and /dev/draw provides a useful graphics API. You could argue in your project thesis that filesystems sometime provide a better abstraction than traditional programming-language based APIs; and prove it by porting one such filesystem over to Linux.
Unfortunately, I've already done my senior project. Though, I'd be happy to hack on Glendix stuff in my free time.
/net
I've not done any network or kernel programming, and I'm only slightly familiar with /net. If I wanted to hack on this, where would you recommend I start?
It seems like a Glendix /net could be implemented in user space. Yes?