Re: Moving to git

2008-12-08 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:12:21AM +0100, Neal H. Walfield wrote: I'd like to propose that we move from CVS to git. I intend to do the repository conversion until the end of this year. Regards, Thomas signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff

2008-12-08 Thread Michal Suchanek
2008/12/8 Arne Babenhauserheide [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Freitag 05 Dezember 2008 12:31:52 schrieb Michal Suchanek: 2008/12/3 Arne Babenhauserheide [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Sonntag 30 November 2008 21:08:43 schrieb Michal Suchanek: The default distribution can then be modified to create a

Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff

2008-12-08 Thread Michal Suchanek
2008/12/8 Arne Babenhauserheide [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Freitag 05 Dezember 2008 12:40:32 schrieb Michal Suchanek: [...] For me firefox can cause my media player to skip. This is because firefox eats all available CPU time from time to time, and the only way to prevent it from interfering with

Re: Moving to git

2008-12-08 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag 08 Dezember 2008 09:36:25 schrieb Thomas Schwinge: Hello! On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:12:21AM +0100, Neal H. Walfield wrote: I'd like to propose that we move from CVS to git. I intend to do the repository conversion until the end of this year. Since the niches definitely show that

About SOCK_CLOEXEC, SOCK_NONBLOCK flags, accept4, etc.

2008-12-08 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! Further work on getting glibc HEAD going again. I made some thouhts. Please see through the following and tell me what's right and what's wrong. We yet need more implementations, but these are a start. diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/bsd/bsd4.4/bits/socket.h

Re: Niches for the Hurd: evaluation method; was: DRM musings, capabilities and stuff

2008-12-08 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag 08 Dezember 2008 13:37:14 schrieb Michal Suchanek: However, a non-free application may require certain known version of the otherwise free system (and driver for hardware cryptographic device) to run or allow access to protected content. This would mean that I as user could use the

Re: looking for the solution of rootless subhurd

2008-12-08 Thread Da Zheng
Hello everyone, Da Zheng wrote: Hello everyone, I am trying to make subhurd run without root's permission. AFAIK, the reason that subhurd needs the root's permission is that the subhurd needs the master device port and privileged host port, and the current implementation gets the real ones

[PATCH] bogus report-wait.c's describe_number's stpcpy

2008-12-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, While debugging odd buildd segfaults, I stumbled across some odd code in report-wait.c: static char * describe_number (string_t description, const char *flavor, long int i) { unsigned long int j; char *p = flavor ? description : __stpcpy (description, flavor); If flavor is NULL, that