Re: The curse of the umbrella, or: Why we got rejected as an organisation

2010-03-27 Thread Neil Jerram
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net writes: lh antrik: so my friend, we are asking most GNU projects to work under the GNU project umbrella. It's worth reading the rest of the log as well however, as there are some suggestions for umbrella projects in the followup that might be helpful -- and I

libpager deadlock

2010-03-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, From times to times, ext2fs deadlocks on the pager-interlock mutex. This is an excerpt of what I could find in the process: #2 0x08106e59 in memory_object_lock_request () #3 0x0806fdeb in _pager_lock_object (p=0x81c97b8, offset=0, size=827392, should_return=2, should_flush=0,

rm -fr slowness

2010-03-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I have always been surprised by the slowness of a mere rm -fr. Looking a bit inside, I see that diskfs_dirremove_hard() calls diskfs_file_update (dp, 1) (as does diskfs_truncate, diskfs_direnter_hard, and diskfs_dirrewrite_hard). diskfs_file_update then calls pager_sync on the pager, which

news 2010-03: *bug squashing* and *Hurd in GSoC 2010 with GNU*

2010-03-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
I wrote the news for this march and am ready to release it. Please write every improvement suggestinon which comes to your mind! This month saw bugs dieing as they met hackers like [Jérémie, Antrik, Samuel](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug- hurd/2010-03/msg00027.html), [Da Zheng,

Re: news 2010-03: *bug squashing* and *Hurd in GSoC 2010 with GNU*

2010-03-27 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 03:03:36PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: This month saw bugs dieing as they met hackers like [Jérémie, Antrik, Samuel](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug- hurd/2010-03/msg00027.html), I don't take any credit for that... Also, I never capitalize my

Re: news 2010-03: *bug squashing* and *Hurd in GSoC 2010 with GNU*

2010-03-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Am Samstag, 27. März 2010 16:00:37 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: Hi, On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 03:03:36PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: This month saw bugs dieing as they met hackers like [Jérémie, Antrik, Samuel](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug- I don't take any