Re: [GSoC 2017] Number fo sockets

2017-08-24 Thread Mark H Weaver
ge in some applications. Instead of a linked list, how about using a dynamic array? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_array This would give you constant-time lookups, amortized constant time insertions and deletions, and better data locality and cache behavior. What do you think? Mark

Re: Trying to get a basic installation working

2017-06-30 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 28/06/17 08:38, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: This looks like the snapshot from january. There's the 2017 release from may on http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-cd Page fault trap, either shortly after selecting the mirror or shortly after tasksel (with nothing non-standard sel

Re: Trying to get a basic installation working

2017-06-28 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Initially bounced at GNU servers, re-sent. On 27/06/17 14:23, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Mark Morgan Lloyd, on mar. 27 juin 2017 08:06:59 +, wrote: >> The CD image I was using was >> >> $ cksum *iso >> 4089521537 678834176 cd

Re: Trying to get a basic installation working

2017-06-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 27/06/17 14:23, Samuel Thibault wrote: Mark Morgan Lloyd, on mar. 27 juin 2017 08:06:59 +, wrote: The CD image I was using was $ cksum *iso 4089521537 678834176 cd-1.iso $ sha1sum *iso 9239135037b664a08d355e2f7ece69bfa7576f07 cd-1.iso This looks like the snapshot from january

Trying to get a basic installation working

2017-06-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
, or should I be reverting to the somewhat older image described at https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/index.html ? CC not necessary, I'm subscribed. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

Re: Revisited: Hurd on a cluster computer

2017-05-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
;) is basically SMP with SSI, but that a sysplex has multiple OS instances with jobs moved around as required. It's perhaps interesting that Moshe Bar, who was originally responsible for MOSIX, is occasionally seen hanging out in IBM mainframe mailing lists. CC not necessary, I&#x

Revisited: Hurd on a cluster computer

2017-05-20 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
ility situation? Way back I worked on a microkernel in '386 protected mode that used segmentation heavily, am I correct in assuming that that sort of thing is completely deprecated in the interest of portability? When I were a lad we used logic analysers to debug our code... -- Mark Morgan Ll

Re: gdbserver for GNU/Hurd

2006-12-23 Thread Mark Kettenis
gdb locally on there. But it'd be difficult to have access to all the advanced features a native GNU/Hurd GDB offers. Mark ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

BP Dedicated Server

2005-05-01 Thread Mark
do business with you. Mark Server Dept [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** No.Thank: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@gnu.org

Big apples

2004-10-11 Thread MARK TWAIN
Title: jyh petalid Внимание! С 8 по 25 октября проводится акция «Оплачиваете за два уровня единовременно – третий изучаете бесплатно!» N Y L C Вот несколько причин, по которым Вы будете рады выбрать NYLC: 1.Обуч.аю.щие прог.раммы –ES..L(En.g.lish as a sec.ond lang.uage) 2.Ми.ни гру.ппы,

GNU Mach & Hurd overview

2004-05-02 Thread Mark J. Rosenbaum
wer specific questions is less so. Clearly you don't want them to spend their time writing doc instead of writing code but a little doc is a wonderful thing. Thanks Mark ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

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2003-06-20 Thread Mark Norman
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Re: [PATCH] Mach's interface for modifying the LDT

2001-12-23 Thread Mark Kettenis
Please be aware that the Mach LDT code still contains serious bugs. Setting the segment registers to something else than thier defaults is very likely to crash the kernel. I've tried to hunt down the bug, but didn't succeed. Mark __

Re: ps just hangs

2001-10-25 Thread Mark Kettenis
From: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 02:31:19 -0400 (EDT) > (gdb) attach 743 > Attaching to program `/usr/bin/tail', pid 743 > ^C^C Hmm. That might be gdb trying to talk to the signal thread. Definitely. But there is no excuse for C-c not worki

Re: PowerPC port

2001-10-12 Thread Mark Kettenis
couple days but I was interested if knew where I could get one earlier? I removed the link to my OSF MiG package from my homepage a while ago, but you can still find it at: http://www.science.uva.nl/~kettenis/osfmk Enjoy, Mark ___ Bug-hurd m

Re: Building OSKit-Mach (texinfo format) - dead link w/patch

2001-10-09 Thread Mark Paulus
The link for the remote debugging boot option (oskit-boot.txt) under Booting OSKit-Mach is broken. I would propose the following patch to correct this link to a live location: --- oskit-mach.texi.origTue Oct 9 11:15:14 2001 +++ oskit-mach.texi Tue Oct 9 11:16:08 2001 @@ -344,7 +34

Re: Kernel Divide error trap

2001-09-26 Thread Mark Paulus
Could it be a compiler optimization issue, where the empty loop is simply optimized away, and therefore never executed?? (I have seen stranger things come out of optimized code) On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:20:22 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 05:15:32PM +0200, Piotr Kr

Re: Thread creation and stack allocation

2001-07-02 Thread Mark Kettenis
he application to manage stack overflow along with stack allocation and management in this case. Changebars in the draft indicate that this is a recent addition. See http://www.opengroup.org/austin on how to get the current POSIX draft. Mark ___

Re: error compilimg hurd cvs source

2001-07-01 Thread Mark Kettenis
is* a bug in GCC. Please report it to the GCC folks. See http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html for more information on reporting bugs in GCC. Mark ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: glibc/io/fts.c, MAXPATHLEN issue

2001-06-29 Thread Mark Kettenis
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:49:01 -0500 From: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, io/fts.c has a MAXPATHLEN issue. The Debian glibc build of 2.2.3-6 (CVS 6-9-2001) fails because of that. I don't see any problems with the current CVS version. Yes, it uses MAXPATHLEN, but on

Re: Fix statfs

2001-06-29 Thread Mark Kettenis
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) Date: 29 Jun 2001 10:55:51 -0700 Mark Kettenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The way the ext2fs and ufs file system calculate the number of > available blocks can yield a negative number. Since fsblkcont_t is an >

Re: packets stuck in queue (was: Re: pfinet & ftp & hang, round two (much simpler case)

2001-06-10 Thread Mark Kettenis
Hey Marcus, it works really great. No real problems thus far. Even ftpfs seems to work reasonably well. Thanks! ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Fix statfs

2001-06-09 Thread Mark Kettenis
The way the ext2fs and ufs file system calculate the number of available blocks can yield a negative number. Since fsblkcont_t is an unsigned type this causes some interesting output from df, when your filesystem is clogging up. Roland, OK to check thus in? Mark Index: ext2fs/ChangeLog from

Re: glibc broken

2001-05-27 Thread Mark Kettenis
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 18:36:52 +0200 From: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 05:17:08PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > I can't reproduce Marcus' problems with a freshly checked out glibc. > Everything appears to work fine for me.

Re: glibc broken

2001-05-24 Thread Mark Kettenis
I can't reproduce Marcus' problems with a freshly checked out glibc. Everything appears to work fine for me. Oh, and invoking ld.so on a statically linked executable isn't supposed to work I think. Produces a segmentation fault on Linux and Solaris, so I think the current Hurd hebaviour is quite

Re: glibc broken

2001-05-23 Thread Mark Kettenis
he argument/environment vector munging that we do at various stages. And those things are done differently if a program is started directly by Mach or serverboot or via the exec server. The dates Marcus mentions make the following change a bit suspect: 2001-03-24 Mark Kettenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: internal compiler error

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Kettenis
r to attract the attention of the release manager. Mark ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: Bug#88690: mtrace triggers SIGBUS at first malloc

2001-03-08 Thread Mark Kettenis
dl_addr() it looks at _dl_argv[0], which points somewhere in the deallocated stack which results in your SIGBUS. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to fix this yet. Mark ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: Cosmetic glibc 2.2.2 and hurd cvs patches.

2001-02-19 Thread Mark Kettenis
might get lost. Entering them into the Debian BTS should be enough to avoid that. And now we also have savannah.gnu.org (the GNU sourceforge site) where you can enter bug reports for the Hurd. Whatever you do, please let us know about these problems and patches, no m

Re: all largefile checks broken

2001-01-04 Thread Mark Kettenis
such that this wouldn't work. At that time Roland suggested that we'd simply add the necessary *64 functions to libc (emulating them with the 32-bit interfaces), but I only did those that were necessary to support libio. I'll have a go at it now. Mark __

Re: Problems cross-compling glibc

2000-12-07 Thread Mark Kettenis
From: Farid Hajji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:03:39 +0100 Hi, cross-compiling glibc (new cvs snapshot) breaks with the following error message (while making $(GLIBC_BUILDDIR)/elf/dl-sysdep.os): I already fixed this :-).

Re: a problem with login and hostname

2000-11-13 Thread Mark Kettenis
us what is going wrong. Mark, can you commit this or a patch with a similar effect? Thanks Marcus, I checked it in. Mark ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: cross compilation problems

2000-10-27 Thread Mark Kettenis
ust finds the wrong libc so that's the wrong way to check. Indeed. ldd is useless in cross-compiling situations, since it is invoking the Linux ld.so on a Hurd binary. Mark ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailma

Re: stopping of translators

2000-10-10 Thread Mark Kettenis
Enabling the timeouts isn't too difficult, but when I did so somewhere in the past, I encountered some bugs. One of them an off-by-one problem that terminated the last thread listening for requests. Sorry, I don't have the details right now. Could look them up

Re: How to get _IOT_disk_parms ?

2000-10-08 Thread Mark Kettenis
ing should work fine :-). By the way, I don't thing V_GETPARMS is supported by oskit-mach. Mark ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: [Bug-hurd] Re: defining _POSIX_SYNCHRONOUS_IO although msync not available?

2000-09-30 Thread Mark Kettenis
nfigure tests"), and the code is correct in any way.[1] I have no problem with that. We should not claim to conform to things we don'te rally conform to. FYI, I checked in the following change: 2000-09-18 Mark Kettenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * sysdeps/mach/hurd/bits

Re: Bug in glibc/hurd/hurdsig.c

2000-08-27 Thread Mark Kettenis
's progress :-). Don't hesitate to ask any questions. Make sure you provide parallel implementations for the things in sysdeps/mach/hurd/i386. dl-machine.h is particularly relevant to the dynamic linker. Mark

Re: error compiling glibc 2.2 (CVS), cross comp problem?

2000-07-31 Thread Mark Kettenis
gram interpreter, but it also is a shared library. Anyway, either something went wrong with your build (nm and objdump might be handy to find out what's wrong), or your cross compiler is screwed somehow (passing -v to gcc can be of assistence here). Mark

Re: error compiling glibc 2.2 (CVS), cross comp problem?

2000-07-31 Thread Mark Kettenis
so). It looks as if the build process is using the old ld.so instead of the new one. Mark

Re: oskit-mach trouble

2000-07-30 Thread Mark Kettenis
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:31:11 +0200 From: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 07:05:27PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > You'll probably need to provide alternatives for more (all) of the > functions in oskit-0.97.2505/dev/x86/synch.c

Re: huge number of ports & threads

2000-07-30 Thread Mark Kettenis
he previous pageouts have not yet completed when a new one arrives). Some time ago Thomas made some changes to the paging code in the kernel with the idea to avoid this scenario, but apparently it doesn't help enough in your case. Mark

Re: oskit-mach trouble

2000-07-29 Thread Mark Kettenis
You'll probably need to provide alternatives for more (all) of the functions in oskit-0.97.2505/dev/x86/synch.c in the oskit-mach synch.c. Mark

Re: _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 not supported (was: Re: WARNING fileutils 4.0x-1 severly broken

2000-07-29 Thread Mark Kettenis
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 00:03:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Mark Kettenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 01:22:03 +0200 Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 00:27:09 +0200 From: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 not supported (was: Re: WARNING fileutils 4.0x-1 severly broken

2000-07-28 Thread Mark Kettenis
bug in fileutils? No, it's a bug in autoconf. We don't advertise that we support large files on the Hurd. If we did, we would set one of more of the following macros to 1 in : _LFS_LARGEFILE _LFS64_LARGEFILE _LFS64_ASYNCHRONOUS_IO _LFS64_STDIO I think autoconf should at least check for _LFS_LARGEFILE. Mark

Re: _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 not supported (was: Re: WARNING fileutils 4.0x-1 severly broken

2000-07-28 Thread Mark Kettenis
n autoconf. We don't advertise that we support large files on the Hurd. If we did, we would set one of more of the following macros to 1 in : _LFS_LARGEFILE _LFS64_LARGEFILE _LFS64_ASYNCHRONOUS_IO _LFS64_STDIO I think autoconf should at least check for _LFS_LARGEFILE. Mark

Re: small note about unexp. error in __fork

2000-07-27 Thread Mark Kettenis
proc server. It was losing point rights when sending signals to a program. You could use GDB on the proc server to see if you can spot any cases where the number of port references is obviously wrong. The `set noninvasive on' and `info port' commands might be useful. Mark

Re: debugging the exec server

2000-07-18 Thread Mark Kettenis
his way, but backtraces should work fine, and you can print variables (and watch them change underneath you). Mark

Re: translators, ext2 and files

2000-07-14 Thread Mark Kettenis
From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 14 Jul 2000 23:23:31 +0300 Mark Kettenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:27:55 -0400 >From: Olivier Galibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >settrans -c

Re: translators, ext2 and files

2000-07-13 Thread Mark Kettenis
. Anyway, I agree with Marcus that it's useful to have this feature, and it's probably how Thomas designed it. Mark

Re: Port to PowerPC

2000-07-09 Thread Mark Kettenis
oncrete questions, don't hesitate to ask. I'd love to see the Hurd running alongside with Mac OS X :-). Mark

Re: CVS version doesn't boot for me

2000-05-20 Thread Mark Kettenis
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 19:03:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yeah, on later thought I liked your idea fine. Here's a patch. OK to check this in? 2000-05-20 Mark Kettenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * configure.in: Add check for li

Re: CVS version doesn't boot for me

2000-05-19 Thread Mark Kettenis
HO the simplest and most robust way to solve the problem. Mark

Re: CVS version doesn't boot for me

2000-05-18 Thread Mark Kettenis
y real hacking or even much code-reading these days (it will be probably at least several more weeks before I can), and I don't recall the full details of all this off hand. I don't think there should be a problem like this, but I don't have enough information on hand

Re: CVS version doesn't boot for me

2000-05-14 Thread Mark Kettenis
but I don't have enough information on hand right now to be of much more help. Mark understands the details too and might be able to help before I can. I'll look into it the coming week. Mark

Re: Bug#63723: hurd: suspicious code in ext2fs/pager.c

2000-05-11 Thread Mark Kettenis
at the argument above doesn't have to apply. That's probably why the manual mentions those restrictions. However, for the Hurd servers themselves, it is not too bad to make some additional assumptions about implementation details if that is convenient or improves performance. Mark

Re: MIG -> CORBA

2000-05-10 Thread Mark Kettenis
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 22:55:21 +0500 (GMT-5) From: Sergey Izvoztchikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Mark Kettenis wrote: > Indeed. I don't really have experience with CORBA, but I don't think > the issues in this thread are relevant

Re: MIG -> CORBA

2000-05-09 Thread Mark Kettenis
hat retroactively change the rules (like added new reserved words) are just not worth supporting. Mark

Re: MIG -> CORBA

2000-05-09 Thread Mark Kettenis
Just don't expect any of the core Hurd developers to take part in it. That might be a good reason to take it off the bug-hurd mailing list. Mark

Re: write support without inodes

2000-05-07 Thread Mark Kettenis
really, but maybe you could get some idea's from looking at Linux or one of the BSD's. Mark

Re: Bug#62328: unexpected error in __fork

2000-04-13 Thread Mark Kettenis
g_post_request. Check mach_msg return value for sanity assert. (send_signal): Make MESSAGE auto instead of static, use new type name. This problem tracked down by Mark Kettenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Mark

Re: Patches to GDB to make cross-compile friendly...

2000-02-26 Thread Mark Kettenis
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 03:22:21 -0500 From: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That looks fine, though you should match `*-*-gnu*' for the configuration. Mark Kettenis is in charge of gdb for hurd and will take care of getting the fix put into gdb. It is probably ea