Re: The Hurd: what is it?

2005-11-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The facts are that even a person like me who has been around these > parts for an awfully long time doesn't even know what the heck to > spend time on. It isn't something as trivial as deciding if one > should fix rpctrace to be a bit saner, fixin

Re: The Hurd: what is it?

2005-11-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I'm asking the maintainers (Roland, Thomas) what the heck is the > direction of the Hurd is or should be. If it is the Hurd/Mach, then > Hurd/L4 should be dropped completely, if it is Hurd/L4, then Hurd/Mach > should be dropped compltely, or if

Re: The Hurd: what is it?

2005-11-08 Thread Sergio Lopez
El mié, 09-11-2005 a las 02:00 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann escribió: > Of course, I don't speak for Roland or Thomas. But as far as I know, > the direction of the Hurd has not changed at all. The Hurd-on-L4 > efforts are an evaluation of a new design. Until such a design > emerges as a viable altern

Re: The Hurd: what is it?

2005-11-08 Thread Alfred M\. Szmidt
> So I'm asking the maintainers (Roland, Thomas) what the heck is > the direction of the Hurd is or should be. If it is the > Hurd/Mach, then Hurd/L4 should be dropped completely, if it is > Hurd/L4, then Hurd/Mach should be dropped compltely, or if it is > Hurd/something-that-doesn

Re: The Hurd: what is it?

2005-11-08 Thread Alfred M\. Szmidt
Marcus, your reply is a kneejerk reaction (I base this on your inablity to understand the meaning of `seems to be dead'). You yourself claimed that Hurd/FOO (FOO != Mach) would require a rewrite, and the only thing left from Hurd/Mach _might_ be libihash. As for whoms behalf I'm speaking for, who

Re: The Hurd: what is it?

2005-11-08 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:43:01 +0100, Alfred M Szmidt wrote: > Right now Hurd on L4 seems to be dead as a stone This is not true (or may have some truth in it, depending on how you define "Hurd on L4"). > And it will require a total redesign, total rewrite of > everything, and what not. This is

The Hurd: what is it?

2005-11-08 Thread Alfred M\. Szmidt
The lack of direction is annoying. Marcus and I had this long conversation on IRC about the Hurd, Hurd on Mach, Hurd on L4 and Hurd on whatever else, the future, the past and everything inbetween. Right now Hurd on L4 seems to be dead as a stone, more so than Hurd on Mach. And it will require a

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: src/gas/testsuite ChangeLog gas/i386/divide.d ...]

2005-11-08 Thread Alfred M\. Szmidt
> > On i586-pc-gnu, '/' anywhere on the line starts a comment. > > This is because the original x86 sysv assembler used '/' to > > start comments. In mid 1998, I changed this for the linux > > version of x86 gas, so that '/' could be used in expressions as > > a divide operator. Ot

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: src/gas/testsuite ChangeLog gas/i386/divide.d ...]

2005-11-08 Thread Alan Modra
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:55:51AM -0500, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:10:35AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote: > > On i586-pc-gnu, '/' anywhere on the line starts a comment. This is > > because the original x86 sysv assembler used '/' to start comments. > > In mid 1998, I changed t

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: src/gas/testsuite ChangeLog gas/i386/divide.d ...]

2005-11-08 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:10:35AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote: > On i586-pc-gnu, '/' anywhere on the line starts a comment. This is > because the original x86 sysv assembler used '/' to start comments. > In mid 1998, I changed this for the linux version of x86 gas, so that > '/' could be used in expr