Re: Imminent Debian GNU/Hurd release

[Philip Charles]

On Mon, 13 May 2013, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Svante Signell, le Mon 13 May 2013 00:11:40 +0200, a écrit :
> > On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 00:04 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > Arne Babenhauserheide, le Sun 12 May 2013 01:06:29 +0200, a écrit :
> > > > On the other hand, I think we should be able to give a rough
> > > > estimate (the release week), but I’m not sure about that - we
> > > > need to wait for the ones who actually do the release.
> > > 
> > > The images are already done :)
> > > 
> > > I was just waiting for comments on README before moving them to the
> > > final spot. And then just pushing the news article.

If I may make a suggestion.

That an article entitled something like this, "What is special about the 
Hurd"  Which would give examples of how to use the special features which 
Hurd offers.  Say three levels per feature, illustrative, practical, 
advanced practical.  This needs to in the same directory and the images so 
people downloading an image will see it.  This should be an effective 
promotional tool.

This suggestion was inspired by what I saw in the faq.

Phil.

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Re: Imminent Debian GNU/Hurd release

[Samuel Thibault]

Philip Charles, le Tue 14 May 2013 19:57:42 +1200, a écrit :
> On Mon, 13 May 2013, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Svante Signell, le Mon 13 May 2013 00:11:40 +0200, a écrit :
> > > On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 00:04 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > > Arne Babenhauserheide, le Sun 12 May 2013 01:06:29 +0200, a écrit :
> > > > > On the other hand, I think we should be able to give a rough
> > > > > estimate (the release week), but I’m not sure about that - we
> > > > > need to wait for the ones who actually do the release.
> > > > 
> > > > The images are already done :)
> > > > 
> > > > I was just waiting for comments on README before moving them to the
> > > > final spot. And then just pushing the news article.
> 
> If I may make a suggestion.
> 
> That an article entitled something like this, "What is special about the 
> Hurd"  Which would give examples of how to use the special features which 
> Hurd offers.  Say three levels per feature, illustrative, practical, 
> advanced practical.  This needs to in the same directory and the images so 
> people downloading an image will see it.  This should be an effective 
> promotional tool.

I guess this would be more or less the translator_primer page, wouldn't
it?

(http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/documentation/translator_primer)

Should that be inline README, at beginning, at end, etc.?

It'd be really good that people help us with sorting out the promotional
stuff on the wiki. It's typically the kind of things that take time
while not being technical, so I don't see any reason why this couldn't
be done by other people than the usual ever-busy developers.

Samuel

Re: [PATCH 2/3] utils/vmstat: Use gnumach.defs from gnumach

[David Michael]

Hi,

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Richard Braun  wrote:
> Sorry for reacting late but I don't see the point of that change. Using
> already generated system headers is the intent here. The fact they were
> generated doesn't matter at all, they are the interface reference that
> applications (and even the Hurd itself) must use.

So is  supposed to be generated at some point in the
gnumach install?  That doesn't happen during my build from the
Savannah sources; it only provides .  Am I missing
a step somewhere?

Thanks.

David

Re: [PATCH 2/3] utils/vmstat: Use gnumach.defs from gnumach

[Richard Braun]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:49:19AM -0400, David Michael wrote:
> So is  supposed to be generated at some point in the
> gnumach install?  That doesn't happen during my build from the
> Savannah sources; it only provides .  Am I missing
> a step somewhere?

System headers are provided by glibc (and by the libc0.3-dev package on
Debian GNU/Hurd).

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kern/thread.c (new_thread->pc_sample.buffer): remove duplicate

[Miguel Figueiredo]

2013-05-14 Miguel Figueiredo 

* kern/thread.c (new_thread->pc_sample.buffer): remove duplicate line

diff --git a/kern/thread.c b/kern/thread.c
index 87be923..9dbc677 100644
--- a/kern/thread.c
+++ b/kern/thread.c
@@ -538,7 +538,6 @@ kern_return_t thread_create(
new_thread->pc_sample.sampletypes = 0;
 #endif /* MACH_PCSAMPLE */

-   new_thread->pc_sample.buffer = 0;
/*
 *  Add the thread to the task`s list of threads.
 *  The new thread holds another reference to the task.

--
Melhores cumprimentos/Best regards,

Miguel Figueiredo

kern/thread.c (deallocate_here): remove unneeded allocation

[Miguel Figueiredo]

2013-05-14 Miguel Figueiredo 

* kern/thread.c (deallocate_here): remove unneeded allocation

diff --git a/kern/thread.c b/kern/thread.c
index 87be923..838036f 100644
--- a/kern/thread.c
+++ b/kern/thread.c
@@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ void
 thread_force_terminate(
register thread_t   thread)
 {
-   boolean_t   deallocate_here = FALSE;
+   boolean_t   deallocate_here;
spl_t s;

ipc_thread_disable(thread);

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Melhores cumprimentos/Best regards,

Miguel Figueiredo

Re: A quarter of the Hurd, Q3/Q4 of 2012: *pthreads*, *hardware* and *porting*.

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

On Sun, 05 May 2013 00:33:27 +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide  
wrote:
> I finally managed to write the qoth for the 3rd and 4th quarter of
> 2012, [...]

Thanks!  I just spent another hour and half on this, and it's now live at
.


Grüße,
 Thomas


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hurd_2013: Some Highlighting and a partial timeline

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

On Fri, 10 May 2013 22:35:57 +, Samuel Thibault 
 wrote:
> commit 1a4e7794497e07c9fb6497037290c0f95a298d27
> Author: Arne Babenhauserheide 
> Date:   Sat May 11 00:31:53 2013 +0200
> 
> hurd_2013: Some Highlighting and a partial timeline.

If this is meant to specifically be a Debian GNU/Hurd timeline (as
described in the text), then it isn't: it's rather a summary of the
Hurd's news/* articles.  This is fine to have, but should then rather
live on the top-level news page, or -- better yet, in my opinion -- on
the top-level history page.


Grüße,
 Thomas


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Re: A quarter of the Hurd, Q3/Q4 of 2012: *pthreads*, *hardware* and *porting*.

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, 15. Mai 2013, 00:40:55 schrieb Thomas Schwinge:
> On Sun, 05 May 2013 00:33:27 +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide  
> wrote:
> > I finally managed to write the qoth for the 3rd and 4th quarter of
> > 2012, [...]
> 
> Thanks!  I just spent another hour and half on this, and it's now live at
> .

Cool, thanks!

There’s a small syntax error: 

[identifying and 
backporting]](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00077.html)

(double ]] )

→ can you still fix it?

- Arne

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Re: hurd_2013: Some Highlighting and a partial timeline

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, 15. Mai 2013, 00:53:32 schrieb Thomas Schwinge:
> On Fri, 10 May 2013 22:35:57 +, Samuel Thibault 
>  wrote:
> > commit 1a4e7794497e07c9fb6497037290c0f95a298d27
> > Author: Arne Babenhauserheide 
> > Date:   Sat May 11 00:31:53 2013 +0200
> > 
> > hurd_2013: Some Highlighting and a partial timeline.
> 
> If this is meant to specifically be a Debian GNU/Hurd timeline (as
> described in the text), then it isn't: it's rather a summary of the
> Hurd's news/* articles.  This is fine to have, but should then rather
> live on the top-level news page, or -- better yet, in my opinion -- on
> the top-level history page.

This is intended to be part of the news article, because it is something which 
people likely want to know.

That does not mean that we cannot reuse it in other places…

Best wishes,
Arne
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