Re: A small change to gnumach.texi

2015-10-08 Thread Olaf Buddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 01:20:12PM -0400, Joshua Branson wrote: > I've copied the history section of mach from the wiki into the > gnumach/doc/mach.texi Nice :-) > My diff seems to be adding some changes that I did not intentionally > make. It looks like your editor automatically removed t

Meta: Three-phase patch review

2015-10-08 Thread Olaf Buddenhagen
Hi, I just stumbled upon this, and it seems to me the Hurd project could benefit from this approach: http://sarah.thesharps.us/2014/09/01/the-gentle-art-of-patch-review/ -antrik-

Re: fakeroot-hurd bug or not?

2015-10-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Justus Winter, le Thu 08 Oct 2015 12:56:20 +0200, a écrit : > Quoting Samuel Thibault (2015-09-23 19:08:15) > > All that being said, we should probably not let the programs inside > > fakeroot believe they can write to / > > I'm not so sure. In my mind, fakeroot should fake as much as > possible,

Re: Rolling new releases

2015-10-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Michael, le Thu 08 Oct 2015 12:55:13 -0400, a écrit : > Static linking libpthread doesn't work without it. Right. Perhaps libpthread shouldn't be defining __libc_getspecific actually. Samuel

Re: fakeroot-hurd bug or not?

2015-10-08 Thread Justus Winter
Hi, Quoting Samuel Thibault (2015-09-23 19:08:15) > All that being said, we should probably not let the programs inside > fakeroot believe they can write to / I'm not so sure. In my mind, fakeroot should fake as much as possible, and fail at the latest point possible. The test program only does

Re: Rolling new releases

2015-10-08 Thread David Michael
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > David Michael, le Tue 06 Oct 2015 17:49:00 -0400, a écrit : >> This one avoids problems with a symbol that is also provided by libpthread: >> https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-glibc/glibc-package/trunk/debian/patches/hurd-i386/tg-libc_ge

Re: Rolling new releases

2015-10-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Justus Winter <4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> skribis: > as agreed earlier, we're trying to produce two releases a year. We > released GNU Mach 1.5, GNU MIG 1.5, and GNU Hurd 0.6 in April, hence > it is time for our next release :) Don’t forget libc! :-) Ludo’.

Re: fakeroot-hurd, fakeroot-tcp: small test to show failure

2015-10-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Thu 08 Oct 2015 17:17:16 +0200, a écrit : > cp test dir > cp: unwritable ‘dir/test’ (mode 0444, r--r--r--); try anyway? y > cp: cannot create regular file ‘dir/test’: Permission denied > > fakeroot-tcp cp test dir > cp: cannot create regular file ‘dir/test’: Permission denied >

fakeroot-hurd, fakeroot-tcp: small test to show failure

2015-10-08 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, When looking for the EACCES problems with gpsd I found the following: This small test reveals a bug in hurd (libdiskfs/dir-lookup.c, trans/fakeroot.c, ...?): touch test chmod -w test mkdir dir ls -ld dir drwxr-xr-x 2 srs srs 4096 Oct 8 17:06 dir cp test dir/ ls -l dir -r--r--r-- 1 srs srs