Re: Moving to git

2009-04-27 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> Here is one additional topic I want to confirm with you all before > committing it: the duplication of ChangeLog snippets and commit log > messages is a pain. However, it is not mandatory to maintain ChangeLog > files in the VCS sources -- it's fine with the GNU Coding Standards to > only create

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009; how to fork off the unionfs code base

2009-04-27 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:49:01AM +0200, I wrote: > So, I'd rather go for the conversion method, to not hide the previous > history. And, as I'm already in this dirty business -- a bunch of the > main Hurd's repositories and their branches have already been published, > by the way -- I'm

Re: Moving to git

2009-04-27 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! A bit of a status update. The CVS to Git conversion is mostly finished. There are still some quirks with converting the gnumach-1-branch-Xen-branch, but I'm working on resolving these with the help of the conversion program's author, Simon 'corecode' Schubert, whose fromcvs / rcsparse com

Re: mremap

2009-04-27 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:37:27AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > mremap cannot be defined correctly in terms of mmap and munmap. Not the complete interface, for sure. And even for the specific bit I mentioned I'm not sure it would be possible at all (thinking about preserving MAP_* and P

Re: Unionmount. Basic details

2009-04-27 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, writes: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:35:07PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: >> Carl Fredrik Hammar writes: > >> > Well it isn't simpler in the sense that we'd need to maintain two >> > very similar yet different code bases. Improvements to one would >> > likely get ported to the other. > [.

Re: The problems for the rootless subhurd

2009-04-27 Thread Zheng Da
Hi, On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:04 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:01:56PM +0100, Da Zheng wrote: > > > I logged all RPCs and tried to analyze them. (antrik, I was wrong. > > There aren't 100, 000 RPCs. The number of RPCs to the Mach during the > > subhurd booting is about 20,00