Re: man: pipeline, additional questions

2010-01-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jakub Daniel, le Tue 08 Dec 2009 22:27:12 +0100, a écrit : > when i tried to examine man page of dpkg i got the following error (not right > away but after i scrolled to line 129 or similar): > > man: pipeline.c:1671: pipeline_peek_skop: Assertion `len <= p->peek_offset' > failed. Thanks

Re: man: pipeline, additional questions

2009-12-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Da Zheng, le Fri 11 Dec 2009 17:02:37 +0800, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > >> i was not able to find much information about this > > > > We haven't had any GNU Mach bug for a long time, while we do know quite > > a few bugs in the Hurd itself, so for sure it's not the part that is > >

Re: man: pipeline, additional questions

2009-12-11 Thread Da Zheng
Hi, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> i was not able to find much information about this > > We haven't had any GNU Mach bug for a long time, while we do know quite > a few bugs in the Hurd itself, so for sure it's not the part that is > hindering GNU/Hurd :) I have experienced GNUMach crash when I wo

Re: additional questions

2009-12-10 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Mittwoch, 9. Dezember 2009 17:22:11 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: > Unfortunately, we do not have any roadmap. This is, in part, because > people have different visions about where the project should go... But it is also because there are many areas which need work, and it's most efficient

Re: additional questions

2009-12-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Wed 09 Dec 2009 17:22:11 +0100, a écrit : > (Zheng Da is presently working on the driver issue -- let's see how it > works out :-) ) The cool thing being that that work would be independent from the microkernel! Samuel

Re: additional questions

2009-12-09 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 10:27:12PM +0100, Jakub Daniel wrote: > I read a paper about mach not being the best choice of microkernel for > hurd. There are various comments to that effect floating around the net -- some well-founded, some myths... > And I also know that viengoos has been in de

Re: man: pipeline, additional questions

2009-12-08 Thread Jakub Daniel
> > I believe viengoos doesn't have more drivers that GNU Mach :) > right, this is just what i expected from a project that started more recently than gnu mach and thus is probably being developed to run on machines that are similar to those we have now.. > See http://bugs.debian.org/src:hurd an

Re: man: pipeline, additional questions

2009-12-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jakub Daniel, le Tue 08 Dec 2009 23:13:15 +0100, a écrit : > If the reality is how You pointed it out then i am much happier right away > :).. > even though i thought viengoos would bring newer drivers and support for > various things that mach has not yed focused on. I believe viengoos doesn't h

Re: man: pipeline, additional questions

2009-12-08 Thread Jakub Daniel
> Where did you hear that? i don't know all the sources but i heard it several times but it of course might not be true.. one of the sources is wikipedia.org.. but this one i might have misunderstood. "From early on, the Hurd was developed to use GNU Machas

Re: man: pipeline, additional questions

2009-12-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jakub Daniel, le Tue 08 Dec 2009 22:27:12 +0100, a écrit : > man: pipeline.c:1671: pipeline_peek_skop: Assertion `len <= p->peek_offset' > failed. This lookes like a bug in Hurd. > i have heard that hurd suffers from difficulties with mach. Where did you hear that? > i was not able to find much

man: pipeline, additional questions

2009-12-08 Thread Jakub Daniel
Hello when i tried to examine man page of dpkg i got the following error (not right away but after i scrolled to line 129 or similar): man: pipeline.c:1671: pipeline_peek_skop: Assertion `len <= p->peek_offset' failed. I was also wondering about the following: I read a paper about mach not bei