Re: Reauthentication EINTR bug

2010-07-04 Thread Roland McGrath
The auth server, like any server handling interrupt_operation, is responsible for making sure that the operation either is entirely interrupted cleanly, or completes normally. For the auth handshake, interrupting cleanly means that both sides of the transacation get interrupted. In the scenario y

Re: Article - GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise

2010-07-04 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 05:44:37PM +0200, Jure Repinc wrote: > I've just seen a new article about GNU Hurd: > http://www.h-online.com/open/features/GNU-HURD-Altered-visions-and-lost- > promise-1030942.html http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1474941 is an interesting (from a historical/FSF PO

Reauthentication EINTR bug

2010-07-04 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hello, I have been investigating the EINTR bug for a while now, and I'm finally confident about what the problem is. As a reminder, the bug causes sudo to sometimes fail with EPERM, usually when it tries to open /etc/sudoers because a reauthentication has failed silently. While we originally tho

Re: News 2010-06

2010-07-04 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hi, On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 04:11:37PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > What's the status of the other GSoC projects? Well, progress on the test cases have ground to a halt the last couple of weeks due to exams. However, progress up to the exam period was good, and Emilio will be back late next