[PATCH gnumach] Add protected payloads to NEWS

2014-10-01 Thread Justus Winter
--- NEWS | 4 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9a9f620..357b23f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ Numerous cleanups and stylistic fixes of the code base. Several problems have been identified using static analysis tools and subsequently been

Re: [PATCH gnumach] Add protected payloads to NEWS

2014-10-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ack. Justus Winter, le Wed 01 Oct 2014 15:57:14 +0200, a écrit : --- NEWS | 4 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9a9f620..357b23f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ Numerous cleanups and stylistic fixes of the code base. Several

Re: [PATCH gnumach] Add protected payloads to NEWS

2014-10-01 Thread Richard Braun
On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 03:57:14PM +0200, Justus Winter wrote: +A protected payload can now be associated with capabilities. This +payload is attached by the kernel to delivered messages and can be +used to speed up the object lookup in the receiving task. Very good job, looking forward to

Re: [PATCH gnumach] Add protected payloads to NEWS

2014-10-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Richard Braun, le Wed 01 Oct 2014 16:59:57 +0200, a écrit : On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 03:57:14PM +0200, Justus Winter wrote: +A protected payload can now be associated with capabilities. This +payload is attached by the kernel to delivered messages and can be +used to speed up the object

Re: [PATCH 7/7] procfs: provide magic retry response for /proc/self

2014-10-01 Thread Roland McGrath
+ proc/self/... means replace `proc/self' with the PID of the current +process and then retry as for FS_RETRY_NORMAL. Roland, does it look OK to use a FS_RETRY_MAGICAL for implementing /proc/self? FS_RETRY_MAGICAL is appropriate. But the string itself should more

Re: [PATCH,Hurd] Fix F_*LK* fcntl with __USE_FILE_OFFSET64

2014-10-01 Thread Roland McGrath
2014-08-31 Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org struct flock64 uses 64bit values. This introduces other values for F_GETLK, F_SETLK, F_SETLKW to distinguish between both. * sysdeps/mach/hurd/bits/fcntl.h (F_GETLK64, F_SETLK64, F_SETLKW64): New No blank

mtab and firmlink loop

2014-10-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, We're having issues with schroot and mtab on exodar. Looking a bit at rpctrace, one can see things like this:

It says HURD 0.6 should be released somewhere in 2013. It's not

2014-10-01 Thread Andrew Staunder
Hey guys, I've recently learned about GNU HURD, I'm a linux user. But not a programmer. So I'm sorry I can't help :(. But I do have a question. I was looking up the source code of the HURD on savannah, even though I dont know how to read it, I still like to look at it XD. But something that struck