Re: [PATCH] pthread: fix the stale TSDs when deleting a key

2011-11-04 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 18:03:04 +0100, Pino Toscano toscano.p...@tiscali.it wrote: as I found few months ago[1], when calling pthread_key_delete() all its values in threads are not removed; this, plus the the fact that deleted keys can be reused in pthread_key_create(), causes that in some

Re: libc libpthread circular dependency

2011-11-01 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:11:09 +0100, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) wrote: It used to be that Savannah’s libc could be compiled without libpthread, because none of the source files would explicitly include pthread.h. This is no longer the case with the recent changes

Re: Exporting libc patches

2011-10-31 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:39:00 +0200, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) wrote: In related issues, I’m still failing to do this: --8---cut here---start-8--- $ tg export --linearize for-upstream-glibc Already up-to-date! skip empty

Re: tmpfs compilation

2011-10-27 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! Maksym, this has been a bit light on details. You should always give complete examples what you have done, so that others can reproduce it. On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:15:22 +0300, Maksym Planeta mcsim.plan...@gmail.com wrote: I have a problem with compiling of tmpfs. First when I tried to

[bug #20151] Hurd fails to build outside of build tree

2011-10-26 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Update of bug #20151 (project hurd): Status:None = Works For Me Assigned to:None = tschwinge Open/Closed:Open = Closed

[task #7096] glibc HEAD support

2011-10-26 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Update of task #7096 (project hurd): Status:None = Done Percent Complete: 0% = 100% Assigned to:None = tschwinge Open/Closed:

FOSDEM 2012 -- devroom dedicated to [multiserver] microkernels, or generic alt-OS

2011-10-24 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! I was contacted by jermar on IRC, a developer of HelenOS, which is another multiserver microkernel based OS, http://www.helenos.org/. He and also some folks from the MINIX3 group were thinking whether to propose a developer room for the upcoming FOSDEM 2012. The idea is for having a devroom

Re: Exporting libc patches

2011-10-23 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:16:59 +0200, I wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:30:17 +0100, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) wrote: A further complication is that ‘tg remote --populate’ did not fetch the ‘baseline’ branch, which is consequently reported as a missing dependency.

Re: TLS patches

2011-10-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:12:45 +0200, I wrote: I have prepared ChangeLog snippets/commit logs for your TLS patches for libthreads and libpthread, to merge them into the master branches. I consider our Savannah glibc repository as current upstream for glibc, and the TLS patch is in there,

Hurd: Populate a [build]/lib directory with links to all shared libraries.

2011-10-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! Maksym: this will give you some idea for tmpfs development/testing. On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:23:23 +, I wrote: commit 3aa7bb4849945c7480873567767db3face604260 Author: Thomas Schwinge tho...@schwinge.name Date: Thu Oct 20 15:47:00 2011 +0200 Populate a [build]/lib directory

Re: [PATCH hurd/ext2fs] Sync pager before clearing MAY_CACHE flag

2011-10-19 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:44:40 +0200, Sergio López sl...@sinrega.org wrote: Clearing MAY_CACHE flag on a pager initiates a memory object termination if this one is not referenced anymore. If the object has a significant number of dirty pages (i.e. a file recently created was unlinked before

Re: [PATCH] make libdiskfs handle _PC_PATH_MAX

2011-10-19 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:09:32 +0200, Pino Toscano toscano.p...@tiscali.it wrote: currently, querying (f)pathconf() for _PC_PATH_MAX return -1 and sets errno = EINVAL. At least to my reading of pathconf() in POSIX, when a variable has no limit pathconf() for it should return -1 and not

Re: [PATCH] make libdiskfs handle _PC_PATH_MAX

2011-10-19 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:31:42 +0200, Pino Toscano toscano.p...@tiscali.it wrote: Alle mercoledì 19 ottobre 2011, Thomas Schwinge ha scritto: Just an oversight, or is there a reason to not changing libnetfs/io-pathconf.c and term/users.c, too? term/users.c already does that, it seems

Re: Exporting libc patches

2011-10-16 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:35:29 +0200, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) wrote: In the meantime I’ve changed the commit SHA1 [0], and it does lead to a [0] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hydra-recipes.git/commit/?id=7f49a0c373af0e592c8ee4302ddbab6722b20fd4 I still don't

[bug #17647] glibc: GCC vs. init-first.c

2011-10-15 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Update of bug #17647 (project hurd): Status: In Progress = Ready For Test Assigned to:None = tschwinge Summary: glibc: GCC 4.1 = glibc: GCC vs. init-first.c

[task #5490] syslog

2011-10-14 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Update of task #5490 (project hurd): Open/Closed:Open = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/translator_stdout_stderr.html

Re: tmpfs for Maksym Planeta

2011-10-13 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:48:37 +0200, I wrote: Sergio, Olaf: Do you have a more exact idea about what is missing/buggy in tmpfs? Maksym, you can do the following: * Get the ``File System Exerciser'' running on GNU/Hurd (no idea if there's any porting required). The one I linked from

Re: Libc patch no longer applies

2011-10-13 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-10-12 civodul tschwinge: the patch generated from Savannah's libc doesn't apply to Sourceware's: http://hydra.nixos.org/build/1452335 http://hydra.nixos.org/build/1452335/log: [...] applying patch `/...-glibc-hurd-patches/00-glibc-hurd.patch'...

Re: Exporting libc patches

2011-10-13 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:39:39 +0200, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) wrote: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribas: I’m looking at how to export patches from the ‘tschwinge/Roger_Whittaker’ branch to continuously test on Hydra whether they still apply to upstream

Re: Exporting libc patches

2011-10-13 Thread Thomas Schwinge
(total 44 topics) to directory export ‘tg patch’ doesn’t even produce a patch: --8---cut here---start-8--- $ tg patch| cat From: Thomas Schwinge tho...@schwinge.name Subject: Roger Whittaker Not for upstream submission. Currently used by Thomas

Re: Libc patch no longer applies

2011-10-11 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:49:28 +0200, Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org wrote: Ludovic Courtès, le Tue 13 Sep 2011 10:46:01 +0200, a écrit : The libc patch from Savannah’s repo no longer applies to upstream libc [0]. This is a consequence of the removal of lack-of-TLS support:

Re: How to enable a SCSI CD-ROM ?

2011-10-10 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:18:37 +0200, Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org wrote: Thomas Schmitt, le Sun 09 Oct 2011 11:45:59 +0200, a écrit : CD ROM devices are actually called /dev/cd0 in GNU Mach. With the command line above I could mount /dev/cd0. cd to /dev and run ./MAKEDEV

Re: Requirements concerning GNU Mach additions

2011-10-10 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:53:47 +0200, Richard Braun rbr...@sceen.net wrote: What are the requirements concerning additions (specifically, new files) in GNU Mach ? In particular, what coding style should be used for them ? http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/source_repositories.html#index3h2: |

glibc: pagesize

2011-10-09 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! Linux has a EXEC_PAGESIZE macro, exposed in asm/param.h, typically accessed via linux/param.h, then sys/param.h. This is now taken for granted in glibc: commit 02d46fc4b969e25e4ba0c54aa95fa98d7279bd05 Author: Ulrich Drepper drep...@gmail.com Date: Sat Sep 10 21:47:36 2011

Re: Diagram of Hurd I/O, read

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:59:42 +0200, Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org wrote: Thomas Schwinge, le Thu 22 Sep 2011 12:51:55 +0200, a écrit : + `trivfs_S_io_read`. Depending on the internatl state, either a new memory spurious t^ Apart

Re: GCC 4.6 breaks GNU Mach debugger

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 22:02:11 +0200, Sergio López sl...@sinrega.org wrote: GCC 4.6.1 manual states that, starting with version 4.6, targets Linux_x86 and Darwin_x86 use -fomit-frame-pointer when not optimizing for size. This seems to be also the case for Hurd_x86, since compiling GNU Mach

Diagram of Hurd I/O, read

2011-09-22 Thread Thomas Schwinge
5a7f0df43751e45c1219fa1213f9abc69eb918cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge tschwi...@gnu.org Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:35:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] hurd/io_path: Rework completely. --- hurd/io_path.mdwn | 71 ++-- 1 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff

Re: Libc patch no longer applies

2011-09-16 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:49:31 +0200, Thomas Schwinge tho...@schwinge.name wrote: ... and this did work! That is, ``--build=i486-gnu --host=i486-gnu'' configuration with GCC 4.4, plus old binutils downgraded to Debian package 2.20.1-2. And, on the other machine (with the 2010-04 trees

Re: freenode.net down?

2011-09-16 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/freenode.net | It's just you. http://freenode.net is up. ;-) Grüße, Thomas pgpDkh5QujEgG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Libc patch no longer applies

2011-09-16 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:23:20 +0200, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) wrote: Thomas Schwinge tho...@schwinge.name skribis: ... and this did work! That is, ``--build=i486-gnu --host=i486-gnu'' configuration with GCC 4.4, plus old binutils downgraded to Debian package

Re: How to enable a SCSI CD-ROM ?

2011-09-15 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! Unfortunately, i have not yet found the time to read the messages in your other thread. So, I hope I'm answering the correct questions here, being a bit out of context. On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:35:07 +0200, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: can anybody remember to have used a SCSI

Re: How to enable a SCSI CD-ROM ?

2011-09-15 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:17:58 +0200, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Thomas Schwinge: But: # dd if=/dev/sr0 count=1 bs=2048 skip=16 | strings dd: opening `/dev/sr0': No such device or address # devprobe sr0 || echo no no But i see in /var/log/dmesg [...] Failed

Re: How to enable a SCSI CD-ROM ?

2011-09-15 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:48:17 +0200, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: For example, you could boot a GNU/Linux system, and figure out which SCSI devices exactly are provided. I did. RIPLinux-9.3-non-X.iso as emulated IDE CD-ROM boots with 64 bit kernel. An additionally emulated

Re: How to enable a SCSI CD-ROM ?

2011-09-15 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:05:16 +0200, Svante Signell svante.sign...@telia.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 17:59 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:17:58 +0200, Thomas Schmitt scdbac...@gmx.net wrote: Thomas Schwinge: But: # dd if=/dev/sr0 count=1 bs=2048

Re: ChangeLog/commit messages

2011-09-10 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 10:14:10 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 05:06:09PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: On the other hand, comments such as Olaf's quoted above (``Instead of [...]'') should in fact not be put into the ChangeLog/commit message, but should

mach_task_self, mach_thread_self, mach_host_self (was: fork: mach_port_mod_refs: EKERN_UREFS_OWERFLOW)

2011-09-10 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! First, in my other message I said that ``we're leaking port rights''. This is wrong; we're just handling user reference counts incorrectly. On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:43:58 -0700 (PDT), Roland McGrath rol...@hack.frob.com wrote: Here, we've unconditionally used the value of refs, and didn't

Re: fork: mach_port_mod_refs: EKERN_UREFS_OWERFLOW

2011-09-08 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! This is about fork in glibc. It's leaking port rights. Roland, thanks for the good source code commentation, which is mostly up-to-date; this has helped a lot for understanding! On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:56:45 +0100, Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org wrote: Thomas Schwinge, le Mon 22

[task #11336] Data Export #73 (task)

2011-09-07 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Release: None Effort: 0.00 Wiki-like text discussion box: ___ Details: A new export job has been registered. This task has been created to keep the project informed. However, only Thomas Schwinge, that created the job, can

ChangeLog/commit messages (was: [PATCH] utils/vmstat: Be less aggressive about switching to bigger units)

2011-09-07 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:26:21 +0200, Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org wrote: olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Sat 23 Jul 2011 01:50:16 +0200, a écrit : Instead of switching to the next bigger unit as soon as the value exceeds 1024, do so only when it gets larger than four digits.

Re: [PATCHSET] some random Hurd patches

2011-09-07 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:31:46 +0200, Jonathan Neuschäfer j.neuschae...@gmx.net wrote: In reply to this mail, I'll send some patches. (They are untested) Thanks anyway! ;-) (But of course, we prefer tested patches.) I also planned to send a coccinelle-generated patch, but I didn't review

Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] fix a realloc-related memory leak in localhost()

2011-09-07 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:19:12 +0200, Thomas Schwinge tho...@schwinge.name wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:10:07 +0200, Jonathan Neuschäfer j.neuschae...@gmx.net wrote: * libshouldbeinlibc/localhost.c (localhost): assign the return value of realloc to a temporary variable to avoid

[task #11336] Data Export #73 (task)

2011-09-07 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Update of task #11336 (project hurd): status_id: = Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #0: [100] Job removed per request of his owner, Thomas Schwinge 73.xml is no longer available

[task #11336] Data Export #73 (task)

2011-09-07 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Update of task #11336 (project hurd): Status:None = Cancelled Assigned to:None = tschwinge ___ Reply to this item at:

Re: Build improvements and warning fixes

2011-09-06 Thread Thomas Schwinge
about putting the attached patch on top of it? I (having once been bitten by too lax .gitignore rules) prefer to have them as tight as reasonable. Grüße, Thomas From 3f5fd3de61dbca8c4b081acc6ffc36ab59486a2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge tho...@schwinge.name Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011

Mach projected buffers for user-space device drivers? (was: Build improvements and warning fixes)

2011-09-06 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! [projected buffers] On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:14:06 +0200, Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org wrote: Ah, right (hard to answer sanely while following the GHM). Well, anyway, grepping through the whole hurd+gnumach+glibc code didn't show any use of this. In fact, this projected

Re: [PATCH] Code clean up - removed some warnings

2011-09-05 Thread Thomas Schwinge
patch. Samuel, I think you didn't intentionally drop the #includes (I also changed/added some more)? Also, the declaration of memory_object_proxy_lookup could be added/moved. Grüße, Thomas From 810152088a978ecbc1dda2a345bf236c32c941c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge tho

Re: [PATCH gnumach 6/6] Change argument name to match function body usage

2011-09-05 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 20:12:46 +0200, Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org wrote: Guillem Jover, le Thu 01 Sep 2011 17:17:24 +0200, a écrit : Otherwise the function wrongly uses the global symbol. * linux/src/drivers/scsi/ppa.c (ppa_nibble_in): Rename `str_p' argument to `base'.

Re: [PATCH gnumach 1/3] Use Mach native error codes instead of POSIX errno E* ones

2011-09-05 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 20:24:56 +0200, Guillem Jover guil...@hadrons.org wrote: * device/errno.h: Remove file. [...] diff --git a/i386/i386at/kd_mouse.c b/i386/i386at/kd_mouse.c index 640209c..770a3fe 100644 --- a/i386/i386at/kd_mouse.c +++ b/i386/i386at/kd_mouse.c @@ -179,10 +179,10 @@

Re: [SCM] GNU Mach branch, master, updated. fe26ae2e9cb01a7507c7a929cc5555c7f6c1edfd

2011-09-05 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:02:26 +, Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org wrote: commit 47a835d22b1a608fac5ee241474f128f64cb6a0f Author: Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org Date: Thu Sep 1 03:00:26 2011 +0200 Close kernel stacks. * i386/i386/pcb.c

Issue Tracking (was: IRC meeting 2011-08-31)

2011-09-01 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:38:23 +0200, I wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:38:29 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: Also I just learned about debbugs.gnu.org, and would like to discuss whether we could use it instead of the atrocious Savannah tracker. In case this is discussed before I

Re: IRC meeting 2011-08-31

2011-08-31 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:38:29 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: Another week has passed, another IRC meeting ahead -- as usual on Wednesday (i.e. today) at 19:00 UTC, irc.freenode.net channel #hurd. I'll be late due to another (in-person, real-life) meeting, but I should be able to make

Git write access for Guillem?

2011-08-31 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! Samuel has recently applied (thanks!) a ton of patches by/for Guillem (thanks!); I'd be happy to allow Guillem to do the Git pushes himself (after posting the patches on bug-hurd and getting them acknowledged). Any comments? (Or, Samuel, do you have any special/automated/time-saving process

Re: DNS problem with GNU/Hurd machine

2011-08-30 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:34:10 -0400, Peter Olson pe...@fsf.org wrote: In the gnu.org zone file there is a reference to a machine called stampede.gnu.org with a comment indicating that it is associated with the GNU/Hurd project. So far as I know the machine has never been operational,

[bug #17128] fifos not going away

2011-08-30 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Update of bug #17128 (project hurd): Status:None = Confirmed Assigned to:None = antrik ___ Follow-up Comment #2: IRC, freenode, #hurd,

[bug #17128] fifos not going away

2011-07-25 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Update of bug #17128 (project hurd): Reproducibility:None = Every Time ___ Follow-up Comment #1: http://bugs.debian.org/629184 ___ Reply

Degradation of GNU/Hurd ``system performance''

2011-07-25 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! Building a certain GCC configuration on a freshly booted system: 11 h. Remove build tree, build it again (2nd): 12 h 50 min. Huh. Remove build tree, reboot, build it again (1st): back to 11 h. Remove build tree, build it again (2nd): 12 h 40 min. Remove build tree, build it again (3rd):

GCC build time using bash vs. dash

2011-07-25 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! When recently fixing a GCC configury bug uncovered by using dash for /bin/sh, we wondered which build-time benefits the use of dash would actually bring. kepler is a Xen domU on a AMD Athlon II X2 215 with 2700 MHz, the domU has 1 GiB of RAM, and is running Debian GNU/Linux testing x86.

Re: Refuting Hurd truths and rumors

2011-07-23 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:31:16 +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide arne_...@web.de wrote: I ported the rumor refuting news entry to the wiki: http://www.bddebian.com:/~hurd-web/news/2011-q2-ps/ Feel free to edit it, as long as it’s not yet on hurd.gnu.org Arne, Olaf, as I understand it,

Re: [HURD, PATCH] Fix stack switching at initialization time

2011-07-22 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:48:29 +0200, l...@gnu.org wrote: The attached patch fixes stack switching in init-first.c when cthreads are used (this is for code compiled with a cross-GCC 4.5.1 for i586-pc-gnu; Debian GNU/Hurd uses an older GCC and is not affected.) With this compiler,

Big DVD ISO9660 images (was: Installer halts asking for a release file)

2011-07-22 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:23:02 +0200, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: srinivas v, le Thu 21 Jul 2011 21:55:29 +0530, a écrit : The Debian GNU/Hurd DVD version(updated on 21 july) halts and does not give me any option but to go back to the initial installation steps. The

GNU GSoC: Hurd

2011-07-21 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! Next week, I'll leave for vacations in China, and will only intermittently have Internet access. Richard has kindly and happily agreed to take over with mentoring Jérémie's last GSoC weeks -- who doesn't need much mentoring anyway, as he already knows how and what to do. I already assigned

Re: Technical Documentation Help

2011-07-11 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo Lee! On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 12:41:54 -0500, Lee DuBose lee.dubo...@gmail.com wrote: My name is Lee DuBose and I am [...] Thanks for this nice introduction. I was wondering what I could do to help gnu in regards to being a technical writer, by helping document code or anything else that

Re: IRC meeting 2011-07-06

2011-07-05 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 08:35:32 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: Usual reminder for usual meeting: Wednesday 19:00 UTC, #hurd on irc.freenode.net . Also, usual invitation for everyone to participate and/or to propose topics :-) I might be late, but I will appear eventually. Grüße,

Re: Released the QotH 2011-q2 to the wiki: please proofread!

2011-07-03 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:38:12 +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide arne_...@web.de wrote: I now released Qoth 2011-q2 to the wiki. Thanks! I did some further changes and now published it. Grüße, Thomas pgp6qx2hXCegG.pgp Description: PGP signature

*Not a* ext2fs file corruption bug, but another toolchain issue

2011-06-13 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:26:33 +0200, I wrote: spent several hours on something that looks like a ext2fs translator file corruption bug -- or hopefully Git bug, but it unfortunately rather points into the direction of ext2fs... :-/ Some (a random handful out of a thousand, roughly)

Re: *Not a* ext2fs file corruption bug, but another toolchain issue

2011-06-13 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:05:31 +0200, I wrote: On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 19:26:33 +0200, I wrote: spent several hours on something that looks like a ext2fs translator file corruption bug -- or hopefully Git bug, but it unfortunately rather points into the direction of ext2fs... :-/

SA_RESTART

2011-06-13 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! Roland, you're CCed as the original expert; Jérémie you're CCed as the next expert. :-) Text reproduced from http://www.bddebian.com:/~hurd-web/open_issues/git-core-2/: Running ``git checkout -f'' under GDB: error: git checkout-index: unable to create file

Re: SA_RESTART

2011-06-13 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! (I had already tried to run rpctrace on this, but failed -- which, of course, was simply due to a Git shell script wrapper...) On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:55:44 -0700 (PDT), Roland McGrath rol...@hack.frob.com wrote: I am skeptical that this is really the problem. But if it is, traces of

Re: (Partial) Success Re: emacs23.3 issues and hurd signals

2011-06-08 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:52:55 +0200, Svante Signell svante.sign...@telia.com wrote: Emacs23 builds from source, yippee! Oho -- progress! :-) One more important issue is that the compile completely freezes kvm/hurd 1-2 times out of 3, requiring a reboot every time. It always happens

GNU Free Call GUI, ``Discover Hurd''

2011-06-08 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On http://www.gnutelephony.org/index.php/GNU_Free_Call_GUI, is ``Discover Hurd'' meant to reference the GNU Hurd project, or is it something else? Grüße, Thomas pgpyJbxAheMAd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: GNU Free Call GUI, ``Discover Hurd''

2011-06-08 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:01:35 -0400, David Sugar dy...@gnutelephony.org wrote: I do know the intent was correct. Perhaps there really should have been a prior discussion about this though. On 06/08/2011 07:47 AM, Haakon Meland Eriksen wrote: Yes, this is on purpose and in reference

Re: IRC meeting 2011-06-08

2011-06-07 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 06:35:32 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: The usual reminder for the usual meeting on Wednesday at 19:00 UTC on irc.freenote.net #hurd. As usual everyone is invited, and as usual we welcome suggestions for topics to discuss :-) Sorry -- I'll be absent again.

Re: Exporting libc patches

2011-06-06 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:39:09 +0200, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) wrote: Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org skribis: Ludovic Courtès, le Mon 06 Jun 2011 14:39:39 +0200, a écrit : @@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ extern int __dup (int __fd); extern int __dup2 (int

Re: Bug#624743: cannot reproduce

2011-05-24 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Mon, 23 May 2011 23:59:27 +0200, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: [exim4 SEGFAULT with fortifying options] It looks like gcc-4.6 is here erroneously optimizing __builtin___memmove_chk into a memcpy call! This is not a GCC bug (http://gcc.gnu.org/PR46863), but it is a

Re: Introducing the hardening-wrapper package (was: Exim4 problems)

2011-05-18 Thread Thomas Schwinge
+0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: Next step, II: Figure out what's going wrong. Svante, interested? I would begin as follows. Ill take a look. Thanks for discovering this mess. I should have seen it too :-( No -- why should you've be worried about one specific build dependency being

Re: forwarded proposal to finance some hurd work

2011-05-18 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Tue, 10 May 2011 21:07:31 +0200, Tanguy LE CARROUR tanguy.lecarr...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/5/7 olafbuddenha...@gmx.net More importantly however -- as I stated before -- I have serious doubts about the usefulness of small monetary rewards. According to the reaction we got

Re: forwarded proposal to finance some hurd work

2011-05-18 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Tue, 17 May 2011 21:19:57 +0200, Tanguy LE CARROUR tanguy.lecarr...@gmail.com wrote: I thought about refreshing the web site sometimes ago. No need to redo everything... one can do a lot with just CSS Styling. Sure! If you'd like to work on that, see here for starters:

Introducing the hardening-wrapper package (was: Exim4 problems)

2011-05-17 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Tue, 17 May 2011 11:31:37 +0200, Svante Signell s...@kth.se wrote: Further info. I think the problem is with gcc-4.6 mis-compiling. Well, that's not quite right. But it's not very wrong either... (Another issue is the memora acces problems in gdb: bothe present with gcc-4.4 and

Re: Exim4 problems

2011-05-16 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! Se GDB decided to give some information at least... :-) On Mon, 16 May 2011 18:17:38 +0200, Svante Signell svante.sign...@telia.com wrote: gdb === gdb build-tree/build-exim4-daemon-heavy/exim (gdb) run -C exim4-4.76/test/eximtest/exim4.conf -bV Cannot access memory at address

Re: Exim4 problems

2011-05-16 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Mon, 16 May 2011 22:42:24 +0200, Svante Signell svante.sign...@telia.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 20:28 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 18:17:38 +0200, Svante Signell svante.sign...@telia.com wrote: Thread 5 (Thread 1285.10): #0 0x018eff4c

Re: Exim4 problems

2011-05-16 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Tue, 17 May 2011 00:42:12 +0200, Svante Signell svante.sign...@telia.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 00:13 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: static int rda_exists(uschar *filename, uschar **error) Please continue here: what is this function doing? (You didn't past that one

Re: Exim4 problems

2011-05-15 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Sun, 15 May 2011 11:28:55 +0200, Svante Signell svante.sign...@telia.com wrote: I was asked by tschwinge to take a look at the install problems of exim4. Thanks! running minimal functionality test for binary build-tree/build-exim4-daemon-light/exim in directory

Re: Exim4 problems

2011-05-15 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Sun, 15 May 2011 23:57:00 +0200, Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org wrote: Svante Signell, le Sun 15 May 2011 23:52:10 +0200, a écrit : On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 23:34 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Svante Signell, le Sun 15 May 2011 23:20:52 +0200, a écrit : Segmentation

Re: gnu/hurd live cd

2011-05-14 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Fri, 13 May 2011 22:18:30 -0500, Oz gnulo...@gmail.com wrote: i need a graphical live cd so i can use gnu/hurd i am a noob. anyone know when that will happen. i really want use the hurd and i need it to be easy i am mentally weak. At this point, the GNU Hurd is targeted at

Re: Account request

2011-05-10 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Mon, 09 May 2011 23:18:22 -0400, Barry deFreese bdefre...@verizon.net wrote: On 5/9/2011 1:09 PM, Thomas Schwinge wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011 12:59:27 -0400, seth seth chaotics...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for creating the account but unable to login, is flubber.bddebian.comdown

Re: user-level drivers

2011-05-09 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Mon, 9 May 2011 00:07:16 +0200, Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org wrote: I've started having a look at Zheng Da's user-level driver integration. I've cleaned his tree a bit, and now considering adding patches to the debian packages for wider testing. Great! I'm not the most

Re: user-level drivers

2011-05-09 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Mon, 9 May 2011 12:17:51 +0200, Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org wrote: Thomas Schwinge, le Mon 09 May 2011 11:15:15 +0200, a écrit : The patches however add a few kernel RPCs, which we should probably agree on first, at the minimum that their existence makes sense, so

Re: user-level drivers

2011-05-09 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Mon, 9 May 2011 13:19:22 +0200, Richard Braun rbr...@sceen.net wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 12:17:51PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hmm, I guess we don't have anything that is better than using vm_address_t for physical addresses? At least not in include/mach/std_types.h,

Re: Account request

2011-05-09 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo Steven! On Mon, 9 May 2011 12:59:27 -0400, seth seth chaotics...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for creating the account but unable to login, is flubber.bddebian.comdown? His whole network is unreachable at the moment. I've already informed Barry; he's going to have a look. Grüße, Thomas

Re: Hurd development

2011-05-04 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! Meh, for forwarding (moderated) messages from one mailing list to another by using the Mailman web interface, one apparently needs a Judo black belt or something. Now adding back Rick to the recipients' list. bug-hurd@gnu.org or help-h...@gnu.org are suitable lists for such questions.

Introducing FOSS Factory -- a Bounty System for GNU Hurd Work

2011-05-02 Thread Thomas Schwinge
to register at their site, http://www.fossfactory.org/, and proceed from there. Please don't hesitate to ask Thomas Schwinge, tho...@schwinge.name, if you need help. Continue to explore the list of open bounties, http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/tag/bounty.html

Re: Membership request for group The GNU Hurd

2011-05-02 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Mon, 02 May 2011 15:58:50 +, Maksym Planeta mcsim.plan...@gmail.com wrote: Maksym Planeta requested membership to the group The GNU Hurd at Savannah User Details: - Name: Maksym Planeta Login: mplaneta Maksym did apply for a GSoC task, but due to Google's

Re: IRC meeting 2011-04-26

2011-04-26 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:36:34 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: Did another week pass already? Well, it seems so... Which means the weekly meeting starts in a couple of hours -- at 19:00 UTC on #hurd (freenode.net) as usual. Suggestions for discussion topics are welcome, as well as

Re: IRC meeting 2011-04-26

2011-04-26 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:41:50 +0200, I wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:36:34 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: Did another week pass already? Well, it seems so... Which means the weekly meeting starts in a couple of hours -- at 19:00 UTC on #hurd (freenode.net) as usual.

Re: forwarded proposal to finance some hurd work

2011-04-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:42:59 +0100, Tanguy LE CARROUR tanguy.lecarr...@gmail.com wrote: So recently I made a decision. If I have not time to work on [the GNU Hurd], maybe I should pay someone to do it for me? Assuming this is a serious proposal -- and you seem to be serious about it

Re: forwarded proposal to finance some hurd work

2011-04-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! (I'm assuming you're somewhat familiar with the Google Summer of Code; if not please say so.) For the GSoC, we got more good applications than we can accept (which is obviously limited by Google). My idea is that we could perhaps use the money Tanguy is offering for paying another GSoC

flubber crash

2011-04-11 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! flubber crashed. I have no idea what was going on on the machine when that happened. Fail-Safe callback! IP: 20002347 CS:9 DS: 11 ES: 11 FS: 1f GS: 11 FLAGS 0283 MASK panic: failsafe Debugger invoked: panic Kernel Breakpoint trap, eip 0x20020e4a

Re: flubber crash

2011-04-11 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:35:04 +0200, Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org wrote: Well, I've no immediate idea. Yeah. I rebooted. e2fsck found quite some things to clean up (deleted inodes et al.), but nothing serious. Folks, if anyone has been doing anything specific at the time

GSoC: student application period over, what's next?

2011-04-09 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! I just pushed an update to http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc.html; the interesting bits are replicated in the following. GSoC applicants, please pay attention to this. :-) | This year's *student application period* is over. Thanks for sending | in your applications!

Re: IRC meetings

2011-04-04 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 18:48:57 +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: from now on, let's have a meeting every Tuesday at 19:00 UTC. I'll regularely be late / not able to attend. But I'll read the logs afterwards and repond to specific issues by IRC / email. Grüße, Thomas

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