Re: learning curve

2009-11-25 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:16:32PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > I said it before, and I'll say it again now: the Hurd does not need > more users, it does not even need a lot more developers, it just need > a few *really smart* developers. Perhaps you should attend a presentation on communit

Re: [PATCH 2/3] Implement mountee startup.

2009-11-25 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:28:37AM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > + /* Fetch the effective UIDs of the unionfs process. */ > + nuids = geteuids (0, 0); > + if (nuids < 0) > +return EPERM; > + uids = alloca (nuids * sizeof (uid_t)); > + > + nuids = geteuids (nuids, uids); > + assert

Re: [PATCH] Implement the sync libnetfs stubs.

2009-11-25 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:18:45AM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > [...] Thus, if I did everything correctly, it seems that we have no > problems syncing really read-only filesystems either. Great :-) That's what I hoped for, just wanted to be sure. > +assert (err == 0); Another thing yo

Re: Solving the firmlink problem with io_restrict_auth

2009-11-25 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:58:07PM +0100, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:55:38PM +0100, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net > wrote: > > It is actually a problem that this policy is not followed whenever > > an intermediate translator hands out a "real" port to another > > transl

Re: learning curve

2009-11-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Sun 22 Nov 2009 22:04:22 +0100, a écrit : > (BTW, I don't actually agree on the "really smart developers only" part > either. Unless you are among those who believe that any work on the > existing implementation is pointless, and only working on a new > microkernel would

Re: [PATCH 2/3] Implement mountee startup.

2009-11-25 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hi, On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 09:05:16PM +0100, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:28:37AM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > > + /* Fetch the effective UIDs of the unionfs process. */ > > + nuids = geteuids (0, 0); > > + if (nuids < 0) > > +return EPERM; > > + uids =