Re: Write a VFAT translator

2007-06-07 Thread Ivan Shmakov
cn == christian nastasi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] cn 3- The LFN support use unicode representation, even if the short cn file name entry is stored in ASCII. Does we have some translation cn functions for this or one should be created ad hoc (like linux cn kernel). I hope that the

Re: Athlon patch. (Was:Re: Driver used by Xorg)

2007-07-03 Thread Ivan Shmakov
JLAS == Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could you try with the attached patch instead of my previous patch? Note: this patch is what Linux always does. [...] template |= INTEL_PTE_WRITE; + if (machine_slot[cpu_number()].cpu_type = CPU_TYPE_I486 +

Re: [PATCH] Fix parallel build failure

2007-12-10 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Thomas Schwinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guillem, Samuel, thanks for your investiagation, but I had not yet installed this patch for a reason. It should not be needed at all, as well as also the already-existing ``i386/i386at/boothdr.o: i386/i386/i386asm.h'' dependency line should not

Re: Revision control

2008-05-30 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Arne Babenhauserheide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would there be support for moving to a different revision control mechanism? Anything is far better than cvs, especially if it's distributed. I saw there was some talk of this a while ago but nothing happened. We've got lots of good

Re: Revision control

2008-05-30 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Andrei Barbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If we're throwing ideas out. I suggest darcs. http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html Looks at a whole host of features. I don't see much difference between the sets of features of Darcs and Git as described on this

Re: Revision control

2008-06-03 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Arne Babenhauserheide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] The total disk usage for the two repositories will typically be less than the doubled disk usage for any one of them. (As the Mercurial offers the same, for GNU/Linux and Windows. Indeed. I assume that it will break

Re: Revision control

2008-06-04 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Arne Babenhauserheide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mercurial offers the same, for GNU/Linux and Windows. Indeed. I assume that it will break the hard link as soon as a change is committed for the file? Yes (I just tested it). Result: As soon as you commit a change, the history needs

Presenting GNU/Hurd... what about serial console support?

2008-10-28 Thread Ivan Shmakov
AB == Arne Babenhauserheide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] AB And he was quite impressed, since he could directly see the AB potential in that. AB Even though I did it over X11-forwarding with a possible command AB rate of 2 per minute or so. What purpose did X11 actually serve

GNU Mach: in user-mode?

2009-06-05 Thread Ivan Shmakov
I wonder, is there a chance of getting GNU Mach to run as an user-mode application under a different (e. g., GNU/Linux, or Mach-based GNU/Hurd itself) system? Is there any significant issues, beyond of simply severing all the ties to the real hardware (and

Re: GNU Mach: in user-mode?

2009-06-05 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org writes: I wonder, is there a chance of getting GNU Mach to run as an user-mode application under a different (e. g., GNU/Linux, or Mach-based GNU/Hurd itself) system? Chances always exist. Developers time, no. Surely. Not quite the

Re: GNU Mach: in user-mode?

2009-06-05 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org writes: * The time and qualification necessary to deploy one or more GNU/Linux systems on a single host using User-Mode Linux is (to my experience) significantly lower than for the other solutions (KVM, Xen) For Xen I agree. For KVM, I don't.

Re: GNU Mach: in user-mode?

2009-06-05 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org writes: [...] With the latter being said, I wonder, wouldn't the changes necessary to run GNU Mach in user-mode be similar to those already done to make it suitable for Xen? The thing is: Xen provides you with pagetable-like operations so it's

GNU Mach - Git

2009-06-08 Thread Ivan Shmakov
BTW, did the transition to Git already happen for GNU Mach development tree, or is it still in CVS?

Re: update-grub2

2010-02-09 Thread Ivan Shmakov
JD == Jakub Daniel jakub.dan...@gmail.com writes: JD The problem was i didnt run grub-install, i just forgot to :( i JD thought it has been run when it was being configured after JD apt-getting That would be a seriously broken behavior, as it will make GRUB too dangerous to

Re: [bug #28934] execve(path, args) should take path as a a relative path if it doesn't contain slashes

2010-02-26 Thread Ivan Shmakov
[I've unsuccessfully tried to submit the comment via the Web interface at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/, thus I'm posting it to the list instead.] Carl Fredrik Hammar invalid.nore...@gnu.org writes: [...] The reason argv[0] is expanded is because it is passed as an

Re: [bug #28934] execve(path, args) should take path as a a relative path if it doesn't contain slashes

2010-02-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Carl Fredrik Hammar invalid.nore...@gnu.org writes: [...] A final solution might be to change the exec protocol so that exec*() can pass on the files path, which seems much more robust. Or possibly do the checking for #!-scripts in glibc... But you don't have to worry about this, unless

Re: xdm

2010-03-17 Thread Ivan Shmakov
JD == Jakub Daniel jakub.dan...@gmail.com writes: JD Hello is xdm package working on hurd? i cant make it work (or it JD seems so) xdm gets started every time the system boots up but it JD exits without bringing up the login screen /var/log/xdm.log looks JD like xdm tried to initiate X but

Re: news 2010-04

2010-04-30 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Arne Babenhauserheide arne_...@web.de writes: [...] A couple of minor tweaks are suggested below. And finally *Karim Ahmed* mentored by *Sergio Lopez* will work on [Tuning the VM Subsystem in GNU/Hurd]

Re: What can a translator do that FUSE can’t?

2010-07-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Roland McGrath rol...@frob.com writes: It's all just software. You can encode your interfaces any way you want. … It will just take some time to convince the future users of your code that this encoding is convenient and natural. I'm quite sure that there may be

Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?

2010-07-28 Thread Ivan Shmakov
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net writes: […] For my desktop: - PPPoE/routing/NAT/packet filtering. I'd much appreciate IPv6 support, and there will be virtually no need for NAT for me then. (There's an obvious interest in P2P in the free software community, and

Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?

2010-07-30 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org writes: Ivan Shmakov, le Wed 28 Jul 2010 19:13:44 +0700, a écrit : - PPPoE/routing/NAT/packet filtering. I'd much appreciate IPv6 support, and there will be virtually no need for NAT for me then. AIUI, IPv6 is already supported. Indeed

Re: [Fwd: Questions on isc-dhcp]

2011-03-05 Thread Ivan Shmakov
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net writes: On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 09:53:11AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: Still much more to learn to be really able to contribute. Eh? You just made a pretty non-trivial contribution right there :-) It seems that it's not the ability to do the big things

Re: New Language to write HurdNG

2012-03-23 Thread Ivan Shmakov
arnuld uttre arnuld.miz...@gmail.com writes: […] I don't do anything because I don't want to use C or C++ to write microkernel. I have my reasons for this: After 40 years we are still using a language that was designed on some ancient piece of equipment to take benefit of the

Re: New Language to write HurdNG

2012-03-23 Thread Ivan Shmakov
arnuld uttre arnuld.miz...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: arnuld uttre arnuld.miz...@gmail.com writes: The hardware has gone beyond any imagination of virtually any XIX century's person, but the English language that we're currently using is still

Re: Become developer

2012-06-17 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Alessandro Caligaris alessandro.caligaris1...@gmail.com writes: my name is Alessandro and i'm a young developer. I love the open source world and I would love to join the GNU hurd project as developer. In attachment, there is my CV. [2. application/msword;

Re: procfs, separate repo?

2012-07-01 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org writes: Should we keep procfs in a separate repository, or merge it into the main hurd repository? Generally enough, did we write a guideline somewhere as to what should be in the main hurd repository, or should be separate? Given that

Re: procfs, separate repo?

2012-07-10 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Richard Braun rbr...@sceen.net writes: On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 12:59:47PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] Given that Git has support submodules, but not (AIUI) for repository merging and splitting, my opinion would be to keep all but the bare minimum off the main Hurd repository

Re: GNU Mach: IDE disk drives with unusual C/H/S

2012-11-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Thomas Schwinge tho...@codesourcery.com writes: […] Does anyone spot any problems, or does this need more testing, or is it OK to commit right away? I see none (but then, I'm not really a Mach or ATA expert), apart from a few style and formatting issues. […] +if

Re: GNU Mach: IDE disk drives with unusual C/H/S

2012-11-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Thomas Schwinge tho...@codesourcery.com writes: On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:36:24 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] Here, a diff line could've been saved by adding an opening { to the if above. (IOW, no need to drop the C grouping construct from here.) Generally you're right with your

Re: [PATCH, HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished

2013-02-13 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 09:07 +0100, Richard Braun wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 06:51:29AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: […] - you cannot commit this code unless I agree to sign the copyright papers for libc (which I of course will when asked

Re: [patch] for mig check in GDB's configure

2013-05-03 Thread Ivan Shmakov
陆岳 hacklu.newb...@gmail.com writes: […] A few minor points. From 13d3edd1f6dbbc20b2801cea1fc367bf9042f977 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hacklu hacklu.newb...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 18:27:08 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Patch check mig on GNU Hurd 2013-05-3 hacklu

Re: [PATCH 8/8] sysvinit: Fix getty path in /etc/inittab on Hurd.

2013-07-09 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Justus Winter 4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de writes: This is essentially the same as 89f6476d8979174f395a1bf784486254464c349d but fixes the existing /etc/inittab file in the postinstall script. […] + * sysvinit.postinst: Fix getty path in /etc/inittab on Hurd. Please note

Re: [PATCH 8/8] sysvinit: Fix getty path in /etc/inittab on Hurd.

2013-07-11 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Justus Winter 4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de writes: Quoting Ivan Shmakov (2013-07-09 12:59:01) Justus Winter 4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de writes: […] +if [ $(uname) = GNU ]; then +sed -i -e 's|/libexec/getty|/sbin/getty|' /etc/inittab I don’t seem to understand. Shouldn’t

Re: [PATCH 1/2] utils: escape arguments in fakeroot.sh

2013-08-25 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Justus Winter 4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de writes: […] * utils/fakeroot.sh: Escape arguments handed to /bin/sh so that they are not evaluated prematurely. […] exec /bin/settrans --chroot \ - /bin/fakeauth /bin/sh -c cd `pwd`; $* \ + /bin/fakeauth /bin/sh -c cd `pwd`;

Re: [PATCH 1/2] utils: escape arguments in fakeroot.sh

2013-08-25 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Justus Winter 4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de writes: Quoting Ivan Shmakov (2013-08-25 17:55:39) […] /bin/fakeauth /bin/sh \ -c 'cd $1 || exit ; shift ; exec $@' \ dummy.sh $(pwd) $@ \ ? The essential point is that using -c doesn’t prevent one

Re: [PATCH 4/5] qualify constant with the const

2013-09-16 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Marin Ramesa m...@hi.t-com.hr writes: On 11.09.2013 22:14:49, Samuel Thibault wrote: Marin Ramesa, le Wed 11 Sep 2013 12:27:50 +0200, a écrit : Function cnputc() should never modify it's argument so qualify it with a const keyword. void cnputc(c) - char c; + const char c;

Re: POSIX file system test suite for Hurd translators

2013-10-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Justus Winter 4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de writes: […] I've been pondering how to make this process more efficient. In essence, I'm looking for a way to distribute logs of such tools to people interested in them and don't mind the amount of automated mails. I think that a

Re: [PATCH 2/5] ddb/db_sym.c: move assignment outside if

2013-11-23 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Guillem Jover guil...@hadrons.org writes: On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 13:11:05 +0100, Marin Ramesa wrote: […] db_sym_t sp; - if (sp = X_db_lookup(db_symtabs[i], sym_name)) { + boolean_t db_lookup; + db_lookup = (int)(sp = X_db_lookup(db_symtabs[i],

Re: [PATCH 40/68] kern/syscall_subr.c: remove forward declaration

2013-11-29 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Marin Ramesa m...@hi.t-com.hr writes: […] --- a/kern/syscall_subr.h +++ b/kern/syscall_subr.h @@ -37,5 +37,6 @@ extern int thread_switch(mach_port_t, int, mach_msg_timeout_t); extern void thread_depress_timeout(thread_t); extern kern_return_t thread_depress_abort(thread_t);

Re: [PATCH 19/68] i386/i386/ldt.c: remove useless forward declaration without definition

2013-11-29 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Marin Ramesa m...@hi.t-com.hr writes: * i386/i386/ldt.c (syscall): Remove forward declaration. (syscall): New variable. […] #include ldt.h -extern int syscall(); - #ifdef MACH_PV_DESCRIPTORS /* It is actually defined in xen_boothdr.S */ extern @@ -60,6 +58,7 @@

[OT] patches

2013-12-02 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Justus Winter 4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de writes: […] Also, please inline your patches so they can be more easily discussed. JFTR: the treatment of text/* MIME parts may depend on the mail user agent software used. For instance, I’ve just tried to reply to

Re: [PATCH 7/8] vm/vm_resident.c (vm_page_print): remove unnecessary casts

2013-12-11 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Marin Ramesa m...@hi.t-com.hr writes: Members offset and phys_addr are of vm_offset_t types. * vm/vm_resident.c (vm_page_print) (offset, phys_addr): Remove unnecessary casts. […] iprintf(Page 0x%X: object 0x%X,, (vm_offset_t) p, (vm_offset_t) p-object); - printf( offset

Re: [PATCH 7/8] vm/vm_resident.c (vm_page_print): remove unnecessary casts

2013-12-11 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Marin Ramesa m...@hi.t-com.hr writes: On 11.12.2013 19:12:33, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Even though I’m unsure how vm_offset_t is defined (is it int? or is it ptrdiff_t? ¹), I’d rather like to see casts to /int/ here, as it’s what %X (usually – no idea about vm/*) implies. ¹ Please note

Re: [PATCH 4/4] utils/rpctrace: escape non-printable characters in strings

2013-12-13 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Justus Winter 4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de writes: * utils/rpctrace.c (escape_sequences): New char array mapping characters to their escape sequence. […] +static char escape_sequences[0xff] = JFTR: [0xFF] means [0] through [0xFE]. My guess would be that it

Re: [PATCH 1/3] ipc: avoid dereference of null pointer and quiet the GCC warning about uninitialized variable

2013-12-18 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Marin Ramesa m...@hi.t-com.hr writes: On 18.12.2013 10:46:40, Richard Braun wrote: [...] No, that's wrong. The and || operators are guaranteed to be evaluated left-to-right, and yield if the first operand compares equal to 0. And that's exactly why this check against NULL is done

Re: [RFC] kern: simple futex for gnumach (version 6)

2013-12-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Richard Braun rbr...@sceen.net writes: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 04:28:33PM +0100, Marin Ramesa wrote: […] +static futex_hash_table_t table = NULL; +static unsigned int max_hash_val = 0; I strongly recommend using the module namespace for everything global, including static variables

Re: [PATCH 1/2] include: add new file for cache-related definitions

2014-01-08 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Justus Winter 4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de writes: Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 15:51:27 +0100 […] --- /dev/null +++ b/include/cache.h @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +/* + * Copyright (c) 2013 Free Software Foundation. … Which makes me wonder if the boilerplate has to be updated. […]

Re: innocent-looking patch that breaks oot-builds

2014-04-06 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Justus Winter 4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de writes: Hi, here is the innocent-looking patch that breaks out of tree builds. Specifically? Could you please provide some excerpts of the build logs, highlighting the failure? Any thoughts how to fix this? For a

Re: two build system issues

2014-04-06 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Justus Winter 4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de writes: The second issue is due to me doing an out-of-tree build. That it currently works is more or less by chance I fear. I just came up with a (legit in my opinion) patch that breaks oot builds. So what happens here is that demuxer.c

Re: Please merge the random translator into the Hurd repository

2014-06-11 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Thomas Schwinge tho...@codesourcery.com writes: On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 12:17:31 +0200, Justus Winter wrote: […] I prepared this for your consideration here: http://darnassus.sceen.net/gitweb/teythoon/hurd.git/shortlog/refs/heads/merge-random That looks reasonable. I would have done the

Re: [PATCH] libmachdev: fix net_rcv_msg-messages

2014-06-11 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Justus Winter 4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de writes: […] @@ -243,8 +243,10 @@ netif_rx_handle (char *data, int len, struct net_device *dev) pack_size = len - sizeof (struct ethhdr); /* remember message sizes must be rounded up */ - net_msg-msg_hdr.msgh_size =

Re: fakeroot-hurd not properly returning errors

2014-08-19 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Anatoly A Kazantsev anat...@gnu.org writes: […] @@ -348,9 +349,17 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) break; default: /* Parent. */ - if (waitpid (pid, NULL, 0) == -1) + if (waitpid (pid, status, 0) == -1) error (8, errno, waitpid); + if

Re: Hurd Fork: Announcement & Invitation

2018-07-20 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Amos Jeffries writes: > On 21/07/18 09:37, Ranvijay Kumar Vijay wrote: […] >> because I’ve seen discussions on the net where people didn’t want to >> be a part of Hurd just because it requires Copyright assignment to FSF. >> I personally think they are mistaken, but have created

Re: [PATCH unionfs 3/3] Don’t use strncat() with length derived from source string

2021-04-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> On 2021-04-27 11:57:03 +0300, Sergey Bugaev wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 11:10 PM Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Err, but wouldn’t the compiler be able to determine that the size was >> properly computed, and avoid emitting a false-positive warning? > It is my understanding, based on

Re: Regarding copyright assignment to FSF

2021-08-13 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> On 2021-08-12 12:18:20 +1000, Damien Zammit wrote: > On 11/8/21 11:01 pm, Ludovic Courtès wrote: This seem somewhat off-topic for the lists, so I’m open to suggestions on what other forum to use (should anyone wish to continue this thread.) My suggestion is, as