Sharing code with Genode?

2009-05-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I just got a "gnu hurd" news alert which talked about Genode, so took a quick look at it, and it seems like Hurd and Genode could benefit from some code- sharing. Genode is GPL-2 (only), but still it might be a useful source: - The news: http://www.osnews.com/thread?365682 Best wishes,

Re: Hurd Mission Statement

2009-05-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Wednesday, 27. May 2009 16:45:52 Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > An utterly appropriate observation: I hoped that the ``Niches for the > Hurd'' discussion would provide us with something definite to tend to, > but it doesn't look like it has happened... I had hoped to get there, too, but I wasn't deep e

Re: [PATCH 5/5] Changed argp parsing policy

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:31:59PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index b7e5716..7b7ce01 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ > # USA. > > # Get the information from under /usr. > -prefix = /usr/ > +prefix = /usr Aha, here we go

Re: [PATCH 3/5] Made unionmount always include the underlying node

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:31:52PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > diff --git a/netfs.c b/netfs.c > index 89d1bf6..7c375d2 100644 > --- a/netfs.c > +++ b/netfs.c > @@ -71,9 +71,9 @@ netfs_append_args (char **argz, size_t *argz_len) > { > if (ulfs->path) > err = argz_ad

Re: [PATCH 2/5] Updated the Makefile (unionfs -> unionmount)

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:31:54PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index 3129031..b7e5716 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ > -# Hurd unionfs > -# Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > -# Written by Je

Re: Hurd Mission Statement

2009-05-27 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hi, On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 02:40:34PM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > What do you think? Is this a good mission statement? If so, it should go > on the Hurd web front page. It's good, and your reasoning seems pretty spot-on to me. I agree that it should be on the front page. Regards,

Re: [PATCH 1/5] unionfs now builds successfully

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:31:49PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index b180072..3129031 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile Don't forget to update the list of copyright years. > +# Get the information from under /usr. > +prefix = /usr/ No trailing

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Change unionfs argument handling policy

2009-05-27 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:31:45PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > I am working on unionmount project, which is (at the moment) a branch > in unionfs git repository > (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/unionfs.git/). The goal of > unionmount is to mount a translator is such a way that the

Re: Hurd Mission Statement

2009-05-27 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:40 PM, wrote: > > For a while I have been thinking about the lack of a roadmap for the > Hurd; but now I realized that we lack something even more fundamental: a > simple mission statement -- i.e. saying *where* we want to go, rather > than how we want to get the