[ale] hald

[Jeff Hubbs]

If I may (having come from the NT side long ago)...

HAL as in hald isn't quite the same thing as HAL as in NT's HAL.  In NT
(substitute XP, 2000, 2003, whatever), the HAL sits between the OS and
the hardware and was key to the now long-forgotten capability of running
NT on Alpha AXP and MIPS processors.  

But in Linux, HAL is a mechanism to help straighten out the mess that is
impermanent devices, along with udev, etc.

Jeff

On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 18:09 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Hardware Abstraction Layer (Daemon).  HAL is the layer between the 
> hardware and software on some newer distros (it's a think that's been in 
> Windows since NT days).  You don't need the HAL daemon running unless 
> you do things that periodically change the hardware footprint (i.e: USB).
> 
> hth,
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> > My box was doing some strange things the other day so I ran
> > [ps aux] to see what was running. The only thing I could find 
> > that seemed odd was "hald", running as root.
> > 
> > Never heard of it; ran a "find" and it turned up in /usr/sbin.
> > this way:
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 205448 Dec  1  2004 hald
> > 
> > Anybody know what this might be or what it might be doing?
> > "man" and "info" turn up nothing and it's not listed in any of the
> > reference books I have on the shelf.
> > 
> > Sean
> > 
> > 
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