GSoC project libchannel

2007-06-14 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! Downward from the heights where the tower is installed in which the Hurd administration resides ;-) I'm asking the question: what is the state of this year's GSoC project, libchannel? Fredrik, how are you coming along? Regards, Thomas PS: Somewhen this weekend I should be able to work

Re: Putting a random translator into the Hurd directly?

2007-06-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:55:52 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:51:48AM -0400, Michael Casadevall wrote: > > That makes sense, but why don't we still include a random module in > > the source itself so people who are working on one at least can work > > >from a common s

Re: fatfs: slot_status COMPRESS

2007-06-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
At Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:31:33 +0200, "christian nastasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [1 ] > [1.1 ] > Hi all, > I'm working on the vfatfs translator and I'm trying to understand how it > should be merged with the fatfs one. > First of all I'm looking at the dir entries searching (diskfs_lookup_

Warnings when compiling the Hurd

2007-06-14 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! | btw, I've realized they is a bunch of warnings while compiling | the Hurd, these should probably deserve killed | somebody should try with gcc-4.2/gcc-4.3 :) Here is the list when compiling with GCC 4.1. So far, I didn't try with 4.2 or 4.3. This was with plain Hurd cvs HEAD,

Warnings when compiling the Hurd -- strict aliasing

2007-06-14 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! For the following list of warnings (which were also already included in my previous email's list) I think (I didn't really check so far ;-) that the following patch might eliminate a chunk of those. Alternatively we would have to apply some `union'ing magic in a lot of places. From the qu

Re: GSoC project libchannel

2007-06-14 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! Hi! > Downward from the heights where the tower is installed in which the Hurd > administration resides ;-) I'm asking the question: what is the state of > this year's GSoC project, libchannel? Fredrik, how are you coming along? Well to be h

Re: Warnings when compiling the Hurd -- strict aliasing

2007-06-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Thomas Schwinge, le Thu 14 Jun 2007 16:42:10 +0200, a écrit : > From the quick glance I had, the problem is that MIG only handles data > structures via the `vm_address_t' type, whereas in the C code those > are pointers to structures. But if I understand correctly, the problem is that doing t

Re: Warnings when compiling the Hurd -- strict aliasing

2007-06-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Answering to myself. Samuel Thibault, le Thu 14 Jun 2007 16:57:29 +0200, a écrit : > Thomas Schwinge, le Thu 14 Jun 2007 16:42:10 +0200, a écrit : > > From the quick glance I had, the problem is that MIG only handles data > > structures via the `vm_address_t' type, whereas in the C code those > >

Warnings when compiling the Hurd -- ``discards qualifiers from pointer target''

2007-06-14 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! #v+ ../../libdiskfs/boot-start.c: In function ???diskfs_start_bootstrap???: ../../libdiskfs/boot-start.c:223: warning: passing argument 2 of ???dir_lookup??? discards qualifiers from pointer target type #v- #v+ 101const char *initname; [...] 222err = dir_lookup (root_pt, ini

[task #5130] random translator

2007-06-14 Thread Michael Casadevall
Follow-up Comment #1, task #5130 (project hurd): I figure this is a good place to post. For anyone following IRC, I've been fighting to get a working entropy device in the kernel, and finally managed to get some entropy going (not much, but its only reading one source as of writing, I'll fix that