Re: [PATCH 2/7] Fix the way FOOFLAGS is handled

2010-08-17 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 01:16:29AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Samuel Thibault, le Wed 18 Aug 2010 01:13:29 +0200, a écrit : > > Thomas, any opinion against this? > > Actually the rest of the series is autoconf/makefile magic, so I'd > rather leave it for you. Will take care of this.

Re: Shouldn't we use partition type 63 (GNU HURD)?

2010-08-17 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:39:13PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > IIRC, the currently recommended way is to use partition type 83 (Linux) > just because the old debian installer only recognizes those. Is there > any other reason which prevents us from using type 63 in the Debian > install

Re: Shouldn't we use partition type 63 (GNU HURD)?

2010-08-17 Thread William Leslie
Wasn't the intention that the GNU partition type number be reserved for a future hurdish file system? What is the partition type number for, would that mean existing tools will refuse to work with it? On 18/08/2010 7:46 AM, "Samuel Thibault" wrote: Hello, IIRC, the currently recommended way is

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Bring console-driver-xkb up to date

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Diego Nieto Cid, le Wed 04 Aug 2010 04:19:58 -0300, a écrit : >The past couple of weeks I've been packaging Marco's input driver > for Arch Hurd and I've found that some changes were necesary to make > it work again. Does anybody know whether / where we have an upstream repository wher

Re: Shouldn't we use partition type 63 (GNU HURD)?

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Roland McGrath, le Tue 17 Aug 2010 14:45:24 -0700, a écrit : > The partition type indicates the format of the filesystem data in that > partition. > It doesn't matter what variant of ext2 is there, or what system the > filesystem's contents are intended to be used with. That's not > something that

Re: [PATCH 4/5] Implement /proc/cmdline as a symlinks to 2/cmdline

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jeremie Koenig, le Mon 16 Aug 2010 13:36:51 +0200, a écrit : > This is not perfect, as the format of > /proc/cmdline and /proc/*/cmdline are different on Linux. Namely, the > latter includes NUL bytes to separate subsequent arguments, while the > former contains only spaces and a trailing newline.

Re: [PATCH 1/4] Fix /proc/*/cmdline.

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jeremie Koenig, le Fri 13 Aug 2010 19:05:12 +0200, a écrit : > On Linux, /proc//cmdline is a NUL-separated list of arguments. > We used to truncate after the first one and add some whitespace. You can now drop the cmdline_data variable. > +{ > + memcpy (data, ps->args, ps->args_len);

Re: [PATCH 2/7] Fix the way FOOFLAGS is handled

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Wed 18 Aug 2010 01:13:29 +0200, a écrit : > Thomas, any opinion against this? Actually the rest of the series is autoconf/makefile magic, so I'd rather leave it for you. Samuel

Re: [PATCH 2/7] Fix the way FOOFLAGS is handled

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas, any opinion against this? Samuel

Re: Shouldn't we use partition type 63 (GNU HURD)?

2010-08-17 Thread Roland McGrath
The partition type indicates the format of the filesystem data in that partition. The 0x83 type is for ext[234] filesystems or other formats that are compatibly identifiable by their magic numbers as those are. It doesn't matter what variant of ext2 is there, or what system the filesystem's conten

Shouldn't we use partition type 63 (GNU HURD)?

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, IIRC, the currently recommended way is to use partition type 83 (Linux) just because the old debian installer only recognizes those. Is there any other reason which prevents us from using type 63 in the Debian installer? Samuel