Small hack entries

Hello, I have added the following section to the "contributing" section of the wiki. It won't appear immediately, so I'm also posting this on the lists. Samuel “ ## Small hack entries Here is a list of small hacks, which can serve as entries into the Hurd code for people who would like to dive

[bug #11509] fakeroot is not reliable

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #11509 (project hurd): It should be noted that I have pushed a fix on port reply, which fixes fakeroot quite a bit. dpkg-buildpackage however still doesn't pass, but it might be easier to debunk the remainder. ___

[bug #15295] Mach lets processes write to I/O ports

Update of bug #15295 (project hurd): Status: Ready For Test => Fixed Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Reply to this item at:

[bug #20999] Mach messages don't show up when the console is started

Update of bug #20999 (project hurd): Status:None => Fixed Assigned to:None => sthibaul Open/Closed:Open => Closed _

[bug #29292] ext2 filesystem doesn't sync properly on shutdown

Update of bug #29292 (project hurd): Status:None => Fixed Assigned to:None => sthibaul Open/Closed:Open => Closed _

[bug #29287] halt seems to hang when running on the hurd console

Update of bug #29287 (project hurd): Status:None => Fixed Assigned to:None => sthibaul Open/Closed:Open => Closed _

[bug #32722] getaddrinfo assertion with 'mtr' on a dual-stack machine

Update of bug #32722 (project hurd): Status: Confirmed => Fixed ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Messag

[bug #32722] getaddrinfo assertion with 'mtr' on a dual-stack machine

Update of bug #32722 (project hurd): Status: Fixed => Confirmed ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Messag

[task #1618] Allowing filesystems larger than ~2 GB

Follow-up Comment #1, task #1618 (project hurd): (There is a patch in debian for ext2fs which needs some review) ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Message

[task #5487] cthreads -> pthreads

Update of task #5487 (project hurd): Status:None => Done Percent Complete: 0% => 100% Open/Closed:Open => Closed _

[task #5782] Handling of large memory equipment by GNU Mach

Follow-up Comment #2, task #5782 (project hurd): We can now change the 3/1 limit to 2/2. A 64bit port is also underway, which should help, rather than doing on-demand mapping. ___ Reply to this item at:

[task #6584] Improve Xen support

Update of task #6584 (project hurd): Wiki-like text discussion box: Status (priority order): # Use elfnote.h # partitions # Proper support for multiboot modules # Batch hypercalls where possible - remaining TODOs # PAE Support - Implement debug registers (but GNU Mach itself doesn't support it ye

[task #6612] Overriding the system's default servers

Update of task #6612 (project hurd): Percent Complete: 0% => 30% ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Being rather implemented through filesystem remapping. __

[task #7895] cthread implementation in terms of pthread interface

Update of task #7895 (project hurd): Status:None => Cancelled Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #4: We don't need this any

[task #10470] disable mmx/sse use in build

Update of task #10470 (project hurd): Status:None => Done Percent Complete: 0% => 100% Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___

Re: FOSDEM slides

Samuel Thibault schreef op za 02-02-2013 om 12:06 [+0100]: > Hello, > > The FOSDEM talk went great, here are the slides: > > http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/2013-02-02-fosdem.pdf > > Samuel > > Enjoyed your talk :) Jens.

Re: Fwd: Debian Hurd Installer problems

Hi Thomas, I hope the information below is what you were looking for. Let me know if it is not. I have tested: - gnumach-image-1.3.99-486_1.3.99.dfsg.git20120219-1_i386.deb (installed by downloading file from snapshot.debian.org, extracting, then copying across to /hurd/boot/gnumach.gz) CHS: 10

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Fix pthread timeout handling and cancellation issues

Samuel Thibault, le Sun 03 Feb 2013 01:52:20 +0100, a écrit : > Richard Braun, le Sat 02 Feb 2013 16:44:20 +0100, a écrit : > > diff --git a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/pt-docancel.c > > b/sysdeps/mach/hurd/pt-docancel.c > > index 105c6fd..b3a5507 100644 > > --- a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/pt-docancel.c > > +++ b/s

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Fix pthread timeout handling and cancellation issues

Richard Braun, le Sat 02 Feb 2013 16:44:20 +0100, a écrit : > diff --git a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/pt-docancel.c b/sysdeps/mach/hurd/pt-docancel.c > index 105c6fd..b3a5507 100644 > --- a/sysdeps/mach/hurd/pt-docancel.c > +++ b/sysdeps/mach/hurd/pt-docancel.c > @@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ __pthread_do_cancel (struc