libchannel -- Carl Fredrik Hammar, GSoC 2007 (was: Moving to git)

2009-10-06 Thread Thomas Schwinge
their work somewhere > > else than in our CVS repository, or should I take the history contained > > in the CVS repository? > > All my libchannel stuff is in CVS. Converted and imported: <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/incubator.git/log/?h=libchannel> Regards, Thomas signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[task #1619] designing and writing libchannel, a library for streams

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[task #1619] designing and writing libchannel, a library for streams

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[GSoC libchannel] Specification

2007-07-13 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hello, this is my first atempt at a (mostly) complete specification for libchannel. Perhaps a bit to detailed and lenghty to give a nice overview, but I trust you can filter out the noise. I would appreciate it if Richard, Roland and Marcus would have a look at it. But also from anybody else

Re: [libchannel] Control procedures

2007-07-11 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Ok, I think I figured out a proper solution, for clarity I will reiterate the entire solution. It's a lengthy mail, but please do read it and tell me what you guys think about it. We want to implement a .defs file with control procedures, which can ofcourse be independant of libchannel.

Re: [libchannel] Control procedures

2007-07-10 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
"Neal H. Walfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree with Pierre, please provide some examples. Ah yes, examples, examples. I've mostly been going by the following passage from an old archive mail about libchannel written by Marcus (http://people.debi

Re: [libchannel] Control procedures

2007-07-09 Thread Neal H. Walfield
I agree with Pierre, please provide some examples. I suspect that if an object implements a wider interface, then the added methods should be written up as a regular mig interface file. That's what mig is there for: the dirty work. As the new routines extend the old interface, just call the basic

Re: [libchannel] Control procedures

2007-07-09 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Carl Fredrik Hammar dies 09/07/2007 hora 22:04: > we want to be able to dynamically load in channel classes into a > channelio translater (at start-up) that can handle RPCs that are > unknown by libchannel and channelio Could you give examples? Curiously, Pierre -- [EMAIL

[libchannel] Control procedures

2007-07-09 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hello, I'm currently thinking up how channel's control interface (a la ioctl) will look like and I need some input. I have a fairly good idea of how the backend will look like in libchannel itself (more on this once the following is resolved.) But getting dynamically extensible IPC f

libchannel progress report #1

2007-06-29 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
. Then I'll move on to enable the use of substores, encoding channels for sending over RPC and ripping any class from libstore that is relevant for channels. After this I will have stripped libstore of it's usefull parts and can begin extending libchannel beyond simply a stripped do

[task #1619] designing and writing libchannel, a library for streams

2007-06-21 Thread Thomas Schwinge
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Re: GSoC project libchannel

2007-06-14 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! Hi! > Downward from the heights where the tower is installed in which the Hurd > administration resides ;-) I'm asking the question: what is the state of > this year's GSoC project, libchannel? Fredrik, how are y

GSoC project libchannel

2007-06-14 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! Downward from the heights where the tower is installed in which the Hurd administration resides ;-) I'm asking the question: what is the state of this year's GSoC project, libchannel? Fredrik, how are you coming along? Regards, Thomas PS: Somewhen this weekend I should

Re: Carl Fredrik Hammar to work on libchannel

2007-04-12 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
> W00t, welcome Fredrik, and good luck!!! > > Barry deFreese (aka bddebian) Thanks Barry! Fredrik ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: Carl Fredrik Hammar to work on libchannel

2007-04-12 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! > Hi! > bug-hurd, please welcome Carl Fredrik Hammar, who will be working on > <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?1619>, ``designing and writing libchannel, > a library for stre

Re: Carl Fredrik Hammar to work on libchannel

2007-04-12 Thread Barry deFreese
Thomas Schwinge wrote: Hello! bug-hurd, please welcome Carl Fredrik Hammar, who will be working on <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?1619>, ``designing and writing libchannel, a library for streams'', as a Google Summer of Code 2007 project. Richard Braun will officially be hi

Carl Fredrik Hammar to work on libchannel (was: Google Summer of Code 2007)

2007-04-12 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! bug-hurd, please welcome Carl Fredrik Hammar, who will be working on <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?1619>, ``designing and writing libchannel, a library for streams'', as a Google Summer of Code 2007 project. Richard Braun will officially be his mentor, but of course we

ioctl emulation (was: Re: GSoC libchannel project draft)

2007-03-26 Thread olafBuddenhagen
the pointer, but in the Hurd, the server can't do much with just > a pointer and no data. The current trick is to implement some hooks > directly in the C library (such as fioctl() in hurd/hurdioctl.c). Each > "complex" ioctl must have such a hook, and this is painful. > Im

Re: GSoC libchannel project draft

2007-03-24 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
ing a complete design draft ready by the midterm evaluation. It's a little vague, but it's difficult to do hard commitments this early, do you guys think I should commit to more? Other comments and suggestions are appreciated as always. :-) Fredrik Title GNU Hurd, libchannel Student

Re: GSoC libchannel project draft

2007-03-24 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
y in pfinet. However if a user wishes to use an unsupported format it can still be converted to one of the supported ones, this use-case would benefit from libchannel. Though I'm guessing this will be an uncommon practice in any case. > Changing just pfinet seems simpler to me, though n

Re: GSoC libchannel project draft

2007-03-23 Thread Richard Braun
ld (and maybe should) be. In addition, the performance hit seems really too much. But this concerns the design of pfinet, not libchannel, so there is time to think about this. The second and most important point you didn't mention in your proposal concerns ioctls. Unlike block devices, there are l

GSoC libchannel project draft

2007-03-23 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
re isn't very much to put into it, I included some (hopefully) relevant information about myself directly into the proposal. Will that do? Any other wishes and suggestions are also welcomed! Fredrik Title Design and implementation of libchannel for the GNU Hurd Student Fredrik Hammar A

Re: Google Summer of Code project: libchannel

2007-03-21 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
lse, let alone how to get Hurd started after that. But this isn't an issue I want to tackle at the moment, so lets leave it at that. >> Then I proceeded investigating the proposed projects and libchannel >> is the one that interests me the most. However it might be a bit >&g

Re: Google Summer of Code project: libchannel

2007-03-21 Thread Thomas Schwinge
ing at all... > Then I proceeded investigating the proposed projects and libchannel is > the one that interests me the most. However it might be a bit more > than I can chew... Nothing is carved in stone: the published tasks are the basis for the applicants to build their applications

Google Summer of Code project: libchannel

2007-03-20 Thread Fredrik Hammar
r Google summer of code, which reinvigorated my interest of the Hurd. So I reinstalled the Hurd, but this time on qemu so I don't have to reboot to access the net and later I hope to get it running on Xen. Then I proceeded investigating the proposed projects and libchannel is the one that interests me t

Re: libchannel; networking (was: Fresh blood :)

2006-06-04 Thread Richard Braun
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:15:50PM -0400, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > To do this networking rework properly, we should probably first take the > time to design and implement the ``legendary'' libchannel. I agree, this library and the channelio translator are something necessary for a

libchannel; networking (was: Fresh blood :)

2006-06-04 Thread Thomas Schwinge
t's cool! If you have questions, just ask: either here or on the #hurd IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. To do this networking rework properly, we should probably first take the time to design and implement the ``legendary'' libchannel. I attached `libchannel.mbox' to this

Re: [task #5392] libchannel

2006-04-19 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 05:36:29PM +0200, I wrote: > Status:None => Cancelled > Open/Closed:Open => Closed In case people wonder if we don't want to have a ``libchannel'

[task #5392] libchannel

2006-04-19 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Update of task #5392 (project hurd): Status:None => Cancelled Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Reply to this item at:

[task #1619] designing and writing libchannel, a library for streams

2006-04-19 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Follow-up Comment #2, task #1619 (project hurd): It might be worth having a look at the ``XSI STREAMS Option Group'', see http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/95399/functions/xsh_chap02_06.html>. ___ Reply to this item at:

[task #1619] designing and writing libchannel, a library for streams

2006-04-19 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Update of task #1619 (project hurd): Percent Complete: Any => 0% ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Attached is `libchannel.mbox': the few bits of libchannel related emails which I coul

[task #5392] libchannel

2006-04-19 Thread Thomas Schwinge
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[task #5392] libchannel

2006-04-10 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Follow-up Comment #1, task #5392 (project hurd): It might be worth having a look at the ``XSI STREAMS Option Group'', see http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/95399/functions/xsh_chap02_06.html>. ___ Reply to this item at:

[task #5392] libchannel

2006-04-10 Thread Thomas Schwinge
URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=5392> Summary: libchannel Project: The GNU Hurd Submitted by: tschwinge Submitted on: Monday 04/10/06 at 01:22 Category: None Should Start

Re: libchannel

2002-05-02 Thread Roland McGrath
libchannel has nothing to do with sound support per se. If you want to work on sound support, that would be great. You can just get started on writing translators to implement /dev/audio or whatever interfaces you want for sound. After you have something working we will worry more about how to

libchannel

2002-05-02 Thread Sam Lauzon (indes)
Hey, I was thinking that I was gonna try to do something to help out and in the IRC channel someone mentioned libchannel which would be sound support for the Hurd. I need some more input however from people here... for example: -- What to use to make sound work? ALSA or should I code