Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-17 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 19:19 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Mon 17 Sep 2012 19:07:29 +0200, a écrit : > > On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 17:57 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Svante Signell, le Mon 17 Sep 2012 14:55:49 +0200, a écrit : > > > > Yes of course. That was maybe overkill. T

Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Mon 17 Sep 2012 19:07:29 +0200, a écrit : > On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 17:57 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Svante Signell, le Mon 17 Sep 2012 14:55:49 +0200, a écrit : > > > Yes of course. That was maybe overkill. Thanks for the links anyway :-) > > > > > > Any interest in me wri

Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-17 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 17:57 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Mon 17 Sep 2012 14:55:49 +0200, a écrit : > > Yes of course. That was maybe overkill. Thanks for the links anyway :-) > > > > Any interest in me writing down some overview stuff, as I understand it? > > Of course it sho

Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Mon 17 Sep 2012 14:55:49 +0200, a écrit : > Yes of course. That was maybe overkill. Thanks for the links anyway :-) > > Any interest in me writing down some overview stuff, as I understand it? > Of course it should be iterated on, several times. Well, please check what would be

Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-17 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 14:29 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Mon 17 Sep 2012 14:13:13 +0200, a écrit : > > More links, thank you. > > ?! > > > I was hoping the hurd pages would be enough, but obviously they are > > not. > > Of course: we expect not to have to explain what an "o

Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Mon 17 Sep 2012 14:13:13 +0200, a écrit : > More links, thank you. ?! > I was hoping the hurd pages would be enough, but obviously they are > not. Of course: we expect not to have to explain what an "operating system" is to developers. They're supposed to find such pages by t

Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Mon 17 Sep 2012 12:48:14 +0200, a écrit : > As I replied to Samuel, I'm not too fond of browsing web pages to find > information scattered in many places, not as an introduction to Hurd. > Where is the complete (tutorial) pdf to download and print out? A tutorial for what? That

Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-17 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 13:47 +0200, Richard Braun wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:48:14PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > > You've spent more than a year working on this system, and you > > > > > still don't get the big picture of it, > > > > Maybe because the _reference_ manuals don't g

Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-17 Thread Richard Braun
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:48:14PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/09/msg00021.html > > Not Hurd related, read the follow-up mails. > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/04/msg00040.html > > What's wrong with that posting? I am more patient by

Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-17 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 11:42 +0200, Richard Braun wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 09:26:18PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > What lack of respect? Lack of respect for what. Your sometimes not very > > nice language? At least I don't call you names, as you do. And Samuel > > does try nicely to answ

Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-17 Thread Richard Braun
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 09:26:18PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > What lack of respect? Lack of respect for what. Your sometimes not very > nice language? At least I don't call you names, as you do. And Samuel > does try nicely to answer my questions, but you only provoke. I don't know. Let's ask

Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Sun 16 Sep 2012 21:26:18 +0200, a écrit : > I even offered to write down things in a (for me and many other > people) clearer way, but that does not seem to be of interest. What makes you believe that? Samuel

Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Sun 16 Sep 2012 21:33:43 +0200, a écrit : > On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 18:16 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Svante Signell, le Sun 16 Sep 2012 17:53:19 +0200, a écrit : > > > What are the powerful features compared to a monolithic kernel. > > > > Using your (as a user) own pflocal

Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-16 Thread Svante Signell
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 18:16 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Sun 16 Sep 2012 17:53:19 +0200, a écrit : > > > > What are the powerful features compared to a monolithic kernel. > > Using your (as a user) own pflocal instead of the system-provided one, > using gdb/valgrind on it,

Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-16 Thread Svante Signell
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 20:51 +0200, Richard Braun wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 06:16:46PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > OK, I wanted to keep all this on IRC to avoid creating public archives > humiliating you, but you don't give us much choice, and there is in fact > already many archived occ

Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-16 Thread Richard Braun
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 06:16:46PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Implementing the whole function setsockopt in eglibc would simplify a > > lot. > > But it can not work: it's pflocal which has to change the option for the > socket, since that's where the AF_UNIX sockets are actually IMPLEMENTED

Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Sun 16 Sep 2012 17:53:19 +0200, a écrit : > > What is puzzling exactly? That said, you don't need to understand that > > part. > > I want to know what's happening (not necessarilty understand every > detail). Then I can only say that I don't even actually know. And that's just

Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-16 Thread Svante Signell
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 13:04 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Sun 16 Sep 2012 11:10:36 +0200, a écrit : > > Q1: Where to find that the second code is used when building eglibc: > > Is it the presence of the second that makes this defining that > > function? > > Yes. The easiest w

Re: Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Sun 16 Sep 2012 11:10:36 +0200, a écrit : > Q1: Where to find that the second code is uesed when building eglibc: > Is the the presence of the second that makes this defining that > function? Yes. The easiest way to know that is to just grep through the build logs. The precise

Questions on the interoperability between libc, gnumach and hurd servers

2012-09-16 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, As a follow up on the latest IRC discussion, and after reading the recent rpc.mdwn, I still have some questions. Let's take a look at the function setsocketopt. Start with glibc: locate setsockopt.c results in two hits. eglibc-2.13/socket/setsockopt.c eglibc-2.13/sysdeps/mach/hurd/setsockopt