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Nice article... but light on technical detailsNice article... but light on technical detailsPosted Jul 21, 2011 19:09 UTC (Thu) by sthibaul (subscriber, #54477)In reply to: Nice article... but light on technical details by alfille Parent article: Signs of life from GNU Hurd
Translators are not only about files, but also network, user authentication, sound stream, etc. Everything in the system actually.
For instance, on a Linux system, to use a VPN, you need to set up a tap, which is a privileged thing. With translators, since the TCP/IP stack itself is not hardwired in the kernel but translated, you can start your own stack as a translator, using a UDP stream via the main TCP/IP stack to send packets to some remote place, and then you can make your application use that translator, thus getting the VPN feature without needing privileges.
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