Re: What can a translator do that FUSE can’t?

2010-07-14 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Roland, There are two core things about translators vs other systems' filesystems: 1. passive translators. These are definitely great, yes! 2. They are naming points for arbitrary RPCs. In FUSE, the only kind of interface available is the filesystem interface. The

Re: What can a translator do that FUSE can’t?

2010-07-14 Thread Roland McGrath
It's all just software. You can encode your interfaces any way you want.

Re: hurdextras in git?

2010-07-14 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 03:24:53PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Are the hurdextras already in git? First, we could import some of these translators into the main Hurd repositories, but not all, due to copyright reasons: not all authors have assigned their copyright to the FSF.

Re: hurdextras in git?

2010-07-14 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:52:13AM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 03:24:53PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: They have some very interesting translators, and these should be easily available. And easily doesn’t mean cvs :) $ cvs -d

Re: News 2010-06

2010-07-14 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 04/07/10 14:43, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: Hi, On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 04:11:37PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: What's the status of the other GSoC projects? Well, progress on the test cases have ground to a halt the last couple of weeks due to exams. However, progress up to the exam

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-07-14 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hi, On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:00:24PM +0200, Jérémie Koenig wrote: The first one would be to make part.c embed extra information in its stores and their encoded form (possibly in the misc fiels of a remap store). This would force it to create a new layer instead of reusing the underlying

Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?

2010-07-14 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 12/07/10 08:41, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: What is currently missing in the Hurd distibutions to make it fullfill your basic needs for your day-to-day work or hobby? Ideally on real hardware, alternatively in qemu/virtualbox/XEN/… I'd first need to (try to) install it on my desktop

Re: What can a translator do that FUSE can’t?

2010-07-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Roland McGrath rol...@frob.com writes: It's all just software. You can encode your interfaces any way you want. … It will just take some time to convince the future users of your code that this encoding is convenient and natural. I'm quite sure that there may be