possible recent performance change?

2017-09-11 Thread Brent W. Baccala
Hi - I recently updated my Debian Hurd system for the first time in a few months, and it started showing an annoying behavior running emacs over ssh, from an Ubuntu host to Hurd on a qemu VM. The editor would freeze for about a second, then suddenly catch up with the key strokes I had typed in

Re: DHCP client

2017-09-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Joan Lledó, on lun. 11 sept. 2017 19:30:07 +0200, wrote: > > It looks odd not to specify explicitly -a 0.0.0.0, can't we do that? > > Yes, "-a" is equivalent to "-a 0.0.0.0 -m 255.0.0.0". Both options are good. Ok, it just always look odd to me that an option either takes a parameter or

Re: DHCP client

2017-09-11 Thread Joan Lledó
> > It looks odd not to specify explicitly -a 0.0.0.0, can't we do that? Yes, "-a" is equivalent to "-a 0.0.0.0 -m 255.0.0.0". Both options are good. > Otherwise it looks good to me, please submit a patch to the > corresponding upstream & Debian maintainers :) I'm a bit lost here. Is it enough

Re: DHCP client

2017-09-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Joan Lledó, on lun. 11 sept. 2017 12:59:34 +0200, wrote: > To avoid applying the patch, I suggest to replace the PREINIT command for > this: > fsysopts /servers/socket/2 -i ${interface} -a > > The "-a" option sets the address to 0.0.0.0, which works fine for both > pfinet and lwip. It

DHCP client

2017-09-11 Thread Joan Lledó
Hello, In my tests on the lwip translator, I've observed that the DHCP client sets the interface address to 255.255.255.255 before sending the DHCPDISCOVER messages. I found the source of this behaviour in the dhclient-script[1]. The script executes "fsysopts /servers/socket/2 -i ${interface}"

SIGILL instead of SIGSEGV: Was: Re: BUG: /proc/self/exe reports relative paths, should always return absolute paths?

2017-09-11 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 10:38 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > 2) test_sighandler.c: > > GNU/Linux: > ./test_sighandler > Got signal 11, faulty address is 0xdeadbeef, from 5597bd471de0 > Executable name = '/home/srs/Hurd/DEBs/test_cases/test_sighandler�', len = 47 > [bt] Execution path: > [bt]

Re: BUG: /proc/self/exe reports relative paths, should always return absolute paths?

2017-09-11 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2017-09-09 at 22:04 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, on sam. 09 sept. 2017 10:51:36 +0200, wrote: > > On Fri, 2017-09-08 at 00:39 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > That goes back to file_exec_file_name provided with a relative path, and > > > not > > > an > > > absolute