Built toolchain available

2008-03-29 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, I have provided a link to the built toolchain: http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/hurd/root-gcc-4.1-glibc-2.7-toolchain.tar.bz2 (40 MB) http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/hurd/root-gcc-4.2-glibc-2.7-toolchain.tar.bz2 (41 MB) from here: http://www.nongnu.org/hutos/ Is it possible for you

Re: Requesting for review of the Draft proposal for - procfs

2008-03-29 Thread Madhusudan C.S
Hi Carl, Thanks a lot in taking time to rgo through my proposal. I think you've done a really great job of writing this proposal! > There's not much to comment on really. :-) Thanks > The project thus aims at making the GNU/Linux process management > > tools like ps, top, vmstat, sysctl, w, ki

Re: Requesting for review of the Draft proposal for - procfs

2008-03-29 Thread Madhusudan C.S
Hi Carl, > This is perhaps the root of the misunderstanding, we don't need to be > ahead of linux when it comes to procfs. procfs should only provide a > different interface to features /already/ present in the Hurd, i.e. a > compatibility layer. Your desire to propel the Hurd beyond linux is >

Re: Student for GSoC 2008 - procfs

2008-03-29 Thread Madhusudan C.S
Hi Carl, Olaf and all, > > > I didn't mean to say that /proc/*/mem is problematic per se. I rather > meant that it's problematic to implement a Linux-compatible version in > the Hurd procfs translator. > > The issue is that it's not possible to obtain all of the information > listed by the Linux v

Re: Requesting for review of the Draft proposal for - procfs

2008-03-29 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:21:42AM +0100, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > It seems to me that many (most?) of the translators will be /very/ > simple. For uptime, cpuinfo, cmdline etc. their task boils down to > gather some info and produce a string using with asprintf(). > > This is much like

Re: updated proposal

2008-03-29 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 06:04:51PM -0600, Joshua Stratton wrote: > Basically, I was thinking the network stack could be divided into > different translators per protocol and give the client access to > different layers based on his needs. Indeed, that was not explicitely mentioned in the pro

Re: tcp/ip rewrite for summer of code

2008-03-29 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 05:50:37PM -0600, Joshua Stratton wrote: > I'd still like some feedback from the Hurd developers about what they > would like to see in the TCP/IP rewrite. A bit of patience, please :-) > From what I envision, it would be modular design of two or more > translators (

Re: Requesting for review of the Draft proposal for - procfs

2008-03-29 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 08:40:30AM +0530, Madhusudan C.S wrote: > I want to bring few points to your notice, though I had > understood the need for GNU/Linux compatibility of the procfs > that is to be implemented, I always felt that the GNU System > should be always ahead

Re: Requesting for review of the Draft proposal for - procfs

2008-03-29 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 07:50:41PM +0530, Madhusudan C.S wrote: > IpPI is nothing but a refinement of libnetfs or more clearly procfs > specific libnetfs, in your terms libprocfs. This is done for two > reasons, > > 1. To make the design robust, I dont want the effort who ever puts to > go

Re: Gsoc: choosing right project for hurd.

2008-03-29 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 03:34:20PM -0500, Manish Regmi wrote: > I dont know if this is the right list for this question. Yes it is :-) If possible, you might also want to talk about this on IRC -- direct communication is easier in such cases... > I am quite unsure which project to choos

Re: Requesting for review of the Draft proposal for - procfs

2008-03-29 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hi, I think you've done a really great job of writing this proposal! There's not much to comment on really. :-) "Madhusudan C.S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The project thus aims at making the GNU/Linux process management > tools like ps, top, vmstat, sysctl, w, kill, skill, nice, snice, > pgr

Re: Requesting for review of the Draft proposal for - procfs

2008-03-29 Thread Madhusudan C.S
Hi Olaf, Carl and all, I have submitted a totally reworked proposal through Google Web App. This proposal reflects all the suggestions you have made previously. I written my proposal so that it falls in line with the Hurd's requirements at the moment as you people have told me. The same p

Re: updated proposal

2008-03-29 Thread Joshua Stratton
I thought a directory structure might be a more intuitive interface. It doesn't matter too much to me, as long as it stays intuitive down the road. I guess since it's really only going to implement two layers of the OSI model, it doesn't matter. A list might be more accessible. Thanks for the fe

Re: updated proposal

2008-03-29 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hi, > Olaf made some comments on my proposal and wanted to know a bit more about > my actual implementation in the Hurd itself. I've done added a bit more > to the proposal to explain what I feel is a good implementation. > Basically, I was thinking the network stack could be divided into > diff

Re: Gsoc: choosing right project for hurd.

2008-03-29 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hi, > I dont know if this is the right list for this question. I apologize > if it is the wrong forum. No worries, this is the right one. :-) > I am quite unsure which project to choose from the list. I originally > applied for procfs project and i got a suggestion to apply for another > pro

Re: Requesting for review of the Draft proposal for - procfs

2008-03-29 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hi, > I want to bring few points to your notice, though I had understood > the need for GNU/Linux compatibility of the procfs that is to be > implemented, I always felt that the GNU System should be always ahead of > the GNU/Linux or anyother systems, either in terms of design, or > performance