Svante Signell, le Fri 02 Dec 2011 00:34:57 +0100, a écrit : > On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 00:16 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Svante Signell, le Fri 02 Dec 2011 00:12:45 +0100, a écrit : > > > > > > Q2) fakeroot-sysv use IPC and semaphores. IPC is supported, > > > > ?? No it's not either. > > OK, not IPC, but RPC at least?
Err, that's the same to my ears. > I wonder how much is really left to implement to make GNU/Hurd a > decent (basic) OS for day-to-day work. Depends what you do in your day-to-day work. > It seems to be only half-baked. That is simply FUD. > It is a wonder that 70% of the Debian packages build :) No, it's no wonder. Most of the POSIX interface does work nicely. E.g. the perl testsuite now only has a very few tests which fail. > But of course, when considering functionality, the percentage would be > even lower. Depends what functionality you find essential. To my needs, it's mostly mail & building stuff. The mail part needs network with recent cards, which is not finished yet, that's mostly why I can't yet use the Hurd for day-to-day work. > > > Q3) What is the current status of fakeroot-hurd? > > > > Half-working. One of the issues relates with pochu's patch for file exec > > name. Just try to run fakeroot-hurd and then start ./configure, bash > > gets $0 wrong. > > Anybody working with fakeroot-hurd? Not that I'm aware of. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
