Re: Summer of code: procfs and lisp bindings

Hi, Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Scheme might be interesting as well, although I don't know it's > abilities to interface with C. GNU Guile is an interpreter written in C with an emphasis on the C interface and the ability to embed the whole interpreter in C applications to make

Re: tcp/ip rewrite for summer of code

I've rewritten my proposal based on some feedback from the mailing list. Once again, more about the proposal and myself can be found off Google's website at: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~jstratto/soc_hurd/ I really liked the paper Pierre referenced and think a modular approach with client-based memory

Re: Requesting for review of the Draft proposal for - procfs

Hi Carl, Thanks a lot in spending your invaluable time in going through my proposal. Gave it a quick read-through and it looks pretty good to me. I'm not > that familiar with procfs though, I've mostly just used it to set some > networking settings and checking my notebooks battery level. So

I/O Path

Nirmal Thacker, le Thu 27 Mar 2008 00:27:52 -0400, a écrit : > Could you point me to the path in the code directory structure? It's all spread across a lot of code. You may want to follow the path of IOs from libc's read() to kernel drivers: - Glibc's Hurd read() is in glibc/sysdeps/mach/hurd/rea

[task #7895] cthread implementation in terms of pthread interface

URL: Summary: cthread implementation in terms of pthread interface Project: The GNU Hurd Submitted by: neal Submitted on: Thursday 03/27/2008 at 15:26 Category: The GNU Hurd S

Re: Requesting for review of the Draft proposal for - procfs

Hi, > Hi Carl, > Thanks a lot in spending your invaluable time in going through my > proposal. No problem. Also, I go by Fredrik not Carl, a misconception that is easy to make since I don't abbreviate it. :-) > [snip] > > I suspect you will need to narrow down your feature list a bit. Not >

Re: Requesting for review of the Draft proposal for - procfs

Hi, On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:21:08PM +0530, Madhusudan C.S wrote: > I have come up with this draft proposal so that we can discuss > further based on the this proposal. It looks very promising already :-) > Please review it and suggest any kind of mistakes including spelling > and grammat

Re: Summer of code: procfs and lisp bindings

Hi, On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 02:39:45PM +, Flávio Cruz wrote: > I'm a candidate student for summer of code and I've already sent an > application named "Modern procfs translator for the Hurd system". > Could any mentor give me some feedback about it? I will shortly. > By the way, I'm also in

Re: Student for GSoC 2008 - procfs

Hi, On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 09:11:20AM +0530, Madhusudan C.S wrote: > > /proc//mem is problematic. Do we really need it for procps etc? [...] > If this was not the problem you were trying to mention please > tell me what it was. Sorry -- I had only a stupid webmailer available, a slow

Re: Server overriding; chroot

Hi, On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 08:13:02PM +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Scribit [EMAIL PROTECTED] dies 19/03/2008 hora 17:04: > > The problem is that passive translators are started by the parent > > filesystem server to which they are attached, not by the process > > accessing the node; thus they

Re: SoC HURD projects

Hi, On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 07:08:53PM -0400, Nirmal Thacker wrote: > This is concerning the Google Summer of Code 2008, HURD projects: > *Improved NFS implementation *Disk I/O performance tuning > > I'd like to know more to make a stronger proposal which is due by the > end of this week. [...]

Re: Student for GSoC 2008 - procfs

Hi again, On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:11:44PM +0100, Olaf Buddenhagen wrote: > Note that it's not a problem if you don't know every detail of Linux > procfs. Take a look into which parts of procfs are actually needed for > tools like procfs, and concentrate on implementing that... Erm... That was

Re: Requesting for review of the Draft proposal for - procfs

Hi, On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:07:53PM +0100, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > I was the student in GSoC last year, just thought I'd share my > acquired wisdom and drop some comments on your proposal. :-) Thanks for that :-) > Also, procfs is mainly used to provide compatibility with linux. So, >

Re: Release notes

Hi, On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:08:51PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > El Thursday, 20 de March de 2008 12:42:33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > > Well, for 0.3, the amount of changes is so great that it probably > > doesn't make much sense to list them all. Rather, the release notes > > shou

Re: tcp/ip rewrite for summer of code

I'd still like some feedback from the Hurd developers about what they would like to see in the TCP/IP rewrite. From what I envision, it would be modular design of two or more translators (perhaps one for each protocol). Although it's quite a different approach, I really like the idea of client-bas

Re: Server overriding; chroot

Scribit [EMAIL PROTECTED] dies 27/03/2008 hora 02:28: > > The problem here is that authority is given instead of demonstrated. > > No translator should receive a port from a priviledged server like > > the parent FS server. > Sorry, that's too abstract for me... This is a classical example of conf