IRC meeting 2011-07-20

2011-07-19 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, A somewhat late reminder for the usual IRC meeting, like each Wednesday 19:00 UTC on #hurd (irc.freenode.net). Apart from the usual GSoC stuff, probably we will be (further) discussing a response to some of the misunderstadings that came up in the recent press coverage... Feel free to propos

Re: [PATCH 11/15] Hurd signals: fix sigwait() for global signals

2011-07-19 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 02:32:00AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Jeremie Koenig, le Wed 29 Jun 2011 18:30:23 +0200, a écrit : > > * sysdeps/mach/hurd/sigwait.c (__sigwait): Change the blocking mask > > temporarily so that we catch global as well as thread-specific signals. > > Mmm, this is unsaf

Re: [PATCH 09/15] Hurd signals: implement global signal dispositions

2011-07-19 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 01:09:27AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Jeremie Koenig, le Tue 05 Jul 2011 05:15:28 +0200, a écrit : > > I was worried about a case where the user would install a minuscule > > stack, sufficient for their own handler, but not for a preemptor's one. > > I believe the user

Refuting Hurd truths and rumors

2011-07-19 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I ported the rumor refuting news entry to the wiki: http://www.bddebian.com:/~hurd-web/news/2011-q2-ps/ Feel free to edit it, as long as it’s not yet on hurd.gnu.org Best wishes, Arne

Re: [PATCH 15/15] Hurd signals: Use POSIX sigcodes

2011-07-19 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:27:51AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Jeremie Koenig, le Wed 29 Jun 2011 18:30:27 +0200, a écrit : > > * sysdeps/mach/hurd/i386/bits/sigcontext.h: Remove the constants formerly > > used as sigcodes. > > I don't think you can do that. I'm afraid you need to keep both th

Re: [PATCH 14/15] Hurd signals: SA_SIGINFO support

2011-07-19 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 02:55:06AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Jeremie Koenig, le Wed 29 Jun 2011 18:30:26 +0200, a écrit : > > + uc->uc_sigmask = sc->sc_mask; > > + uc->uc_stack.ss_sp = (__ptr_t) sc->sc_esp; > > + uc->uc_stack.ss_size = 0; > > + uc->uc_stack.ss_flags = 0; > > We generally

Re: I want to help and join hurd team

2011-07-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Aaron, le Wed 13 Jul 2011 21:53:08 +0800, a écrit : > I failed while install the Debian system The fail cause is the partition is > failed while using the partition toll in the install packet. > It told me that "bad file descriptor during write on /dev/hd2". > > Could you do me a favor to give som