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

2010-07-05 Thread Oz
i see the article says that Marcus Brinkmann and Neal Walfield are the main developers. i dont see anything from them on the bug-hurd mailing list are they still the main or most active developers? M, wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 01:07:51PM -0500, Oz wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 a

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

2010-07-05 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 01:07:51PM -0500, Oz wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:44 AM, 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 > it was a good article no? I

sleep in microsecond or nanosecond

2010-07-05 Thread Da Zheng
Hello, I need a program to sleep in several microseconds, but neither nanosleep() nor usleep() can work. They sleep at least 10ms. So it seems the only option is to use loop and Linux kernel does so as well for udelay() and ndelay(). Then I need high resolution timing. I think I can use TSC, but i

Re: Reauthentication EINTR bug

2010-07-05 Thread Roland McGrath
> This would be ideal, but my current understanding is that > interrupt_operation() is mostly advisory and that the operation will > restart or return EINTR regardless of what the server does, and if this > is true then it is impossible to complete the RPC. However, my view of > the interruption c

Re: Reauthentication EINTR bug

2010-07-05 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hi, On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 12:34:19PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > 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