Re: A GNU/Hurd Roadmap dream

2009-06-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Michael, On Wednesday, 3. June 2009 00:23:50 Michael Banck wrote: On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:22:45PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: This is the Roadmap I dreamt of: Sorry, but this is a wishlist, not a roadmap. Or a dream :) The difference from a pure wishlist is that there's an

Re: A GNU/Hurd Roadmap dream

2009-06-03 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide arne_...@web.de wrote: I just dreamed of a Roadmap the Hurd might have - a Roadmap which would be the perfect Roadmap for making the Hurd useful for me. Could you please dream *how* to solve the major drawbacks in Hurd and to make

Re: Initial target(s) for libmob

2009-06-03 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 04:18:55PM +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 06:44:59PM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: I was going to refute your suggestion of ioctl handlers, but in arguing about it back and forth with myself, I ended up agreeing with you. ;-)

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

2009-06-03 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:27:33PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: This is not really that important here (and the same applies to my other nit-picking by the way -- but you chose to be with those picky Hurd people, didn't you?), but as a guideline for forthcoming situations, and to make

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

2009-06-03 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:31:45PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: I'm posting a series of patches which bring unionfs to an intermediate stage on its road towards unionmount: A generic remark here: Try to post a patch series as a single thread. git format-patch has some features that are

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

2009-06-03 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:09:04AM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: +/*---*/ +#include unionmount.h +/*---*/ +

Re: Hurd Mission Statement

2009-06-03 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:08:51AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: On Wednesday, 27. May 2009 16:45:52 Sergiu Ivanov wrote: I hope the niches discussion was useful nontheless. Definitely! It helped me a lot in getting a clearer picture of these things. The only part I am not

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

2009-06-03 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:00:30AM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: From 6f3e628fa4e90ed1316b2919b2d1a7ea08986b4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergiu Ivanov unlimitedscol...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 19:19:23 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Update Makefile to make unionfs build. I wonder, is

Re: [PATCH 4/5] Removed the ``add'' and ``remove'' options

2009-06-03 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:08:06AM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: -case OPT_ADD:/* --add */ - ulfs_mode = ULFS_MODE_ADD; - break; - -case OPT_REMOVE: /* --remove */ - ulfs_mode = ULFS_MODE_REMOVE; - break; - You removed the options to

Re: Hurd Mission Statement

2009-06-03 Thread Alessandro Mosca
hi, The mission of the Hurd project is: to create a general-purpose kernel .. i guess there's something missing in it_ i would say: a modern general-purpose multiserver microkernel os.. the 'modern' part of it means the will to create the sound system, usb / wifi stacks, 128Gb disk I/O

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

2009-06-03 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:18:02AM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: I could have never supposed that a diff could possibly contain such lines... I just didn't look over my patch at all initially... Please *always* look through your patches. It's a good policy to look through the diffs before

Re: Hurd Mission Statement

2009-06-03 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:37:19PM +0200, Alessandro Mosca wrote: The mission of the Hurd project is: to create a general-purpose kernel .. i guess there's something missing in it_ i would say: a modern general-purpose multiserver microkernel os.. I intentionally left the

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

2009-06-03 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:48:56PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: In the end, how much code will be shared between unionfs and unionmount? Would it perhaps make sense -- in the long term, need not be right now -- to transfer the guts of unionfs into a library that can then be shared

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

2009-06-03 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:03:16AM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: @@ -90,6 +96,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) if (err) error (EXIT_FAILURE, err, failed to initialize root node); + ulfs_check (); + /* Map the time, used for updating node information. */ err =

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

2009-06-03 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:09:04AM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: OBJS = main.o node.o lnode.o ulfs.o ncache.o netfs.o \ - lib.o options.o pattern.o stow.o update.o + lib.o options.o pattern.o stow.o update.o unionmount.o unionmount is not a good name for a file, when the whole