Re: RMS interview on LWN

2002-04-04 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
Jeff Bailey wrote: On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 12:52:13PM -0500, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: I patched GNU Pth a.k.a. "Portable Threads" for Hurd a while back. It has pretty dismal performance but you can fool around with it if you want. Links to the source and patch are here: Is gdb smart enough to kno

Re: RMS interview on LWN

2002-04-04 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 12:52:13PM -0500, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: > I patched GNU Pth a.k.a. "Portable Threads" for Hurd a while back. > It has pretty dismal performance but you can fool around with it if > you want. Links to the source and patch are here: Is gdb smart enough to know about libpt

Re: RMS interview on LWN

2002-04-04 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
Moritz Schulte wrote: Bill Bland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: and I'm confused about something: RMS says "You can even use GDB to debug the file system while the system is running--thread-specific breakpoints allow you to..." That is right. All the Hurd server run entirely in User space which mak

Re: RMS interview on LWN

2002-04-04 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 12:11:39PM +0100, Bill Bland wrote: > Hello all, > I just read an interview with RMS on http://www.lwn.net/ > and I'm confused about something: RMS says "You can even use GDB to debug > the file system while the system is running--thread-specific breakpoints > allow y

Re: RMS interview on LWN

2002-04-04 Thread Moritz Schulte
Bill Bland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > and I'm confused about something: RMS says "You can even use GDB to > debug the file system while the system is running--thread-specific > breakpoints allow you to..." That is right. All the Hurd server run entirely in User space which makes it possible t

Re: RMS interview on LWN

2002-04-04 Thread Ognyan Kulev
Bill Bland wrote: So was RMS talking about a different threads library or something that is planned but not yet implemented? Or am I just wrong about pthreads not being ported yet? Our thread library is cthreads. After we have pthreads completely implemented, we'll no longer use cthreads. Regards

RMS interview on LWN

2002-04-04 Thread Bill Bland
Hello all, I just read an interview with RMS on http://www.lwn.net/ and I'm confused about something: RMS says "You can even use GDB to debug the file system while the system is running--thread-specific breakpoints allow you to..." Now I'm still very much a Hurd newbie, but I'm sure I rea

Re: Hurd and AGP?

2002-04-04 Thread Ognyan Kulev
Danalien wrote: - From reading, it turns out there is no AGP-bus support in HURD. And I was wondering if/or when there will ever be? There will be AGP support when someone write it or port it from Linux or BSD :-) Nobody ever started such an effort. Regards-- Ognyan Kulev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "\

gratuitous error (reproductible)

2002-04-04 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! I was trying to translate the alpha.gnu.org repository into my ~/mnt when I got this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls mnt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls mnt/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# settrans -a ~/mnt/ /hurd/ftpfs alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/hurd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls mnt/ (takes a while) ls: mnt/: Gratuitous error -- -

Hurd and AGP?

2002-04-04 Thread Danalien
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, - From reading, it turns out there is no AGP-bus support in HURD. And I was wondering if/or when there will ever be? // with regards // ID :: danalien :: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Public Key Fingerprint: C891 D3A1 427A A5E7 449F B19E 1