Gsoc 2016 Ideas

2016-03-04 Thread Vasantha Ganesh K
Hello everyone,   I would like to work on "Porting Valgrind to the Hurd" from the ideas page of gsoc 2016. Vasantha Ganesh K

fakeroot-hurd doesn't work with scripts

2016-03-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, We have an issue between fakeroot and scripts (from the borgbackup build log): > fakeroot dh_auto_test > Can't open perl script "dh_auto_test": No such file or directory I guess that's due to the way fakeauth starts the program, I haven't looked further. Samuel

Re: Coppyright assignment

2016-03-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Justus Winter <4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> skribis: > Quoting Ludovic Courtès (2016-03-04 13:49:09) >> Justus Winter <4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> skribis: >> >> > I have learned that not all GNU projects require this. For example, >> > GnuPG uses DCO [0], and Guix doesn't even seem

Re: GSoC ideas

2016-03-04 Thread Manolis Ragkousis
Hey On 03/02/16 23:31, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Do you have examples of GNU/Linux uses that would make no sense? > After a quick look in mount's man page I think that maybe Roland was referring to some flags (like relatime for example) that when passed to mount, expect the Linux kernel to handle

RFC: Lightweight synchronization mechanism for gnumach v2.0

2016-03-04 Thread Agustina Arzille
Hello, everyone, I got some very positive feedback last time, so I decided to work on a new version. I've streamlined things a bit, introducing a key type to handle lookups, and moved a bit of code around into new functions. The biggest change, however, is the 'gsync_requeue' RPC. It allows on

Re: Coppyright assignment

2016-03-04 Thread Justus Winter
Quoting Ludovic Courtès (2016-03-04 13:49:09) > Justus Winter <4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> skribis: > > > I have learned that not all GNU projects require this. For example, > > GnuPG uses DCO [0], and Guix doesn't even seem to require that. > > > > Maybe we can change this policy for Hurd

Re: Coppyright assignment

2016-03-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Justus Winter <4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> skribis: > I have learned that not all GNU projects require this. For example, > GnuPG uses DCO [0], and Guix doesn't even seem to require that. > > Maybe we can change this policy for Hurd, GNU Mach, and MIG too? I general, we “cannot” (i.e., ar