news 2010-04

2010-04-29 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I just wrote the news 2010-04 (with help of a draft by Thomas). Please tell me if there’s something missing or something we could improve. A month of the Hurd: *Arch Hurd on Hardware*, *X.org out of the box*, *new debian qemu image* and *GSoC students*. This month the Arch Hurd team

[bug #17133] design bug: ``.. resolution in translators''

2010-04-29 Thread Sergio López
Update of bug #17133 (project hurd): Wiki-like text discussion box: = We should start thinking about getting rid of .. resolution in the translators, providing a convenient replacement in libc which would work with simple string operations.

[bug #26751] creating memory objects through the proxy defpager can fail

2010-04-29 Thread Sergio López
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #26751 (project hurd): I think only GNU Mach should make use of the default pager. tmpfs should create and mantain its own pagers, just like other translators do. ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #28730] Bad Mach object cache reuse

2010-04-29 Thread Sergio López
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #28730 (project hurd): I think we should replace the cache system for memory objects (at least for the ones with external pagers). How about something like this: * GNU Mach ** Get rid of vm_object_cached_*. If an object can persist, it'll persist forever (or until a