Valgrind Hurd - plan changes

2014-09-13 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
on for the next release. Also the "dirty patch" problems would be watched out for during the development. So may I re-base my work on the new Valgrind 3.10.0? Comments please. Regards, Subhashish Pradhan 1 - https://github.com/liquid-mirror/valgrind/

Re: GSOC - valgrind-hurd queries

2014-08-23 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
I could mention this project in my CV after I complete the port as a part of the work done for the GNU Project? Sincerely, Subhashish Pradhan On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:23 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Subhashish Pradhan, le Sun 17 Aug 2014 20:07:25 +0530, a écrit : >> I moved back to my c

Re: GSOC - valgrind-hurd queries

2014-08-18 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
Hello again! Any thoughts about the error? On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Subhashish Pradhan wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Samuel Thibault > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Any news about your project? We haven't seen you on IRC for a long >> time, an

Re: GSOC - valgrind-hurd queries

2014-08-13 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
Um, could you wait a day or two? I'm preparing the report. Thanks! On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Any news about your project? We haven't seen you on IRC for a long > time, and no news by mail... Remember that the soft deadline is today, > and the hard dea

Re: GSOC - valgrind-hurd queries

2014-06-27 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
On Saturday 28 June 2014 01:41 AM, Subhashish wrote: On Wednesday 25 June 2014 04:24 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Subhashish, le Wed 25 Jun 2014 15:58:11 +0530, a écrit : The host system traps plus the syscalls( like __NR_rename are to be encapsulated within an rpc generated via mig - my

GSOC - Valgrind for Hurd

2014-05-19 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
Hello, This week I'll be trying to understand and implement how to pass a syscall to the kernel, whilst having the simulator retain control (step 4) in my proposal along with building a Valgrind instance on GNU Hurd and checking for the unhandled kernel traps (step 1). As, for the wrappers, they'

Re: GSOC - Community Bonding

2014-05-17 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
would boot the first time and when I fetched the sources with git and traversed through it, after the next reboot, the virtual machine would just display a blank screen. So I'm updating my development environment today. Subhashish On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: >

Re: GSOC - Community Bonding

2014-05-01 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
On 4/28/14, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Subhashish Pradhan, le Sat 26 Apr 2014 00:03:40 +0530, a écrit : >> I am Subhashish Pradhan, and my project proposal for GNU Project and >> GNU Hurd has been accepted. My project is - Porting Valgrind to GNU >> Hurd

GSOC - Community Bonding

2014-04-25 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
Hello, I am Subhashish Pradhan, and my project proposal for GNU Project and GNU Hurd has been accepted. My project is - Porting Valgrind to GNU Hurd.[1] This week I am going through GNU Mach documentation and code: Mach 3 Kernel Principles.[2] Mach 3 Kernel Interfaces.[3] Over the following

Re: [GSOC] Porting Valgrind to Hurd

2014-03-25 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Subhashish Pradhan, le Tue 25 Mar 2014 08:15:52 +0530, a écrit : >> here is my initial coverage of teching valgrind ioctl. > > Did you want to attach a file? > > Samuel Oops! Sorry - I wanted to attach a link: http:/

Re: [GSOC] Porting Valgrind to Hurd

2014-03-24 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
Hello, here is my initial coverage of teching valgrind ioctl. Some notes have been left out, will fill it when I get some time - but need to prepare for university exams that are starting tomorrow. On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Subhashish Pradhan, le Thu 20 Mar 2

Re: [GSOC] Porting Valgrind to Hurd

2014-03-20 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
Hello, Thanks for feedback! On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Subhashish Pradhan, le Wed 19 Mar 2014 02:48:53 +0530, a écrit : >> Previously I had some discussions and queries related to this project >> on this mailing list, but disapp

[GSOC] Porting Valgrind to Hurd

2014-03-18 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
gram? It would help illustrate how the syscalls function in GNUMach/Hurd . Any corrections/suggestions/questions are welcome as scrutiny will help make my proposal illustrated and detailed. Thanks! Regards, Subhashish Pradhan IRC Nick: sprkv5

System Calls on Hurd

2014-01-17 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
So I was reading about system calls this week and I noticed that generally we write wrappers which handle the syscalls from programs. So if a system call is encountered, it calls this wrapper which then makes calls to the kernel to perform the task. So I presume that this wrapper is glibc in Hurd,

Re: About Regular IRC Meetings.

2014-01-10 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
Thanks! Will do. Regards, Subhashish On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Richard Braun wrote: > On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 03:26:50AM +0530, Subhashish Pradhan wrote: > > Hello, > > > > "Currently, the meetings take place in the *#hurd channel every Thursday > at >

About Regular IRC Meetings.

2014-01-10 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
Hello, "Currently, the meetings take place in the *#hurd channel every Thursday at 19:00 UTC* and are open to any interested party." Are these held regularly? How long do they last? Can anyone drop in and discuss their queries related to the project? Regards, Subhashish.

Re: Valgrind porting

2014-01-10 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
rds, Subhashish On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Subhashish Pradhan, le Mon 06 Jan 2014 09:01:26 +0530, a écrit : > > So teaching valgrind the syscall means directing memcache tool to > > intercept the read/write operations of the syscall? >

Re: Valgrind porting

2014-01-05 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
syscall? Is this memcache tool the one that handles read/write primitives of valgrind? Or maybe I'm wrong? Regards, Subhashish On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Subhashish Pradhan, le Mon 06 Jan 2014 01:27:08 +0530, a écrit : > > Has anyone started work

Valgrind porting

2014-01-05 Thread Subhashish Pradhan
Has anyone started working on porting valgrind to hurd? If not, I'd like to take up the task (and for GSOC). What would be the essential skills that would be required for this task? Shell scripting, understanding of C, and anything else? Regards, Subhashish