Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished

2013-02-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Fri 15 Feb 2013 08:39:39 +0100, a écrit : > On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 00:31 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Svante Signell, le Fri 15 Feb 2013 00:18:16 +0100, a écrit : > > > > > I don't understand what you mean. What delay are you talking about? > > > > The only delay in by bran

Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished

2013-02-15 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 02:05 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > BTW, I can understand the kind of frustration you can have of seeing > your work being "thrown away" and rewritten. Well, that's life, > software is a lot about frustration, you'll have to get a thick head. As I said, it's no big deal fr

Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished

2013-02-15 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 09:53 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Fri 15 Feb 2013 08:39:39 +0100, a écrit : > > On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 00:31 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Svante Signell, le Fri 15 Feb 2013 00:18:16 +0100, a écrit : > > > > > > > I don't understand what you mean.

Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished

2013-02-15 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 00:58 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Fri 15 Feb 2013 00:37:39 +0100, a écrit : > > > No, it doesn't. There are quite a few ways in which it will break. > >if (d[i].io_port == MACH_PORT_NULL) > { >_hurd_

Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished

2013-02-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Fri 15 Feb 2013 10:32:26 +0100, a écrit : > On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 09:53 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Svante Signell, le Fri 15 Feb 2013 08:39:39 +0100, a écrit : > > > On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 00:31 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > Svante Signell, le Fri 15 Feb 2013 00:18:

Ognyan Kulev added to Savannah hurd group

2013-02-15 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! I have just added Ognyan Kulev (ogi) to the Hurd Savannah group. Amongst other contributions, he's well known for his ext2fs work done nearly ten years ago. Ogi: Regarding Git access, for any core Hurd and GNU Mach changes I suggest we use commit-after-approval access; for hurd-web, incubato

Re: Ognyan Kulev added to Savannah hurd group

2013-02-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Fri 15 Feb 2013 11:36:36 +0100, a écrit : > I have just added Ognyan Kulev (ogi) to the Hurd Savannah group. Amongst > other contributions, he's well known for his ext2fs work done nearly ten > years ago. Welcome back! Samuel

Re: Ognyan Kulev added to Savannah hurd group

2013-02-15 Thread Ognyan Kulev
На 15.02.2013 12:36, Thomas Schwinge написа: > Hi! > > I have just added Ognyan Kulev (ogi) to the Hurd Savannah group. Amongst > other contributions, he's well known for his ext2fs work done nearly ten > years ago. > > Ogi: Regarding Git access, for any core Hurd and GNU Mach changes I > sugges

Re: Ognyan Kulev added to Savannah hurd group

2013-02-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ognyan Kulev, le Fri 15 Feb 2013 14:03:33 +0200, a écrit : > На 15.02.2013 12:36, Thomas Schwinge написа: > > I have just added Ognyan Kulev (ogi) to the Hurd Savannah group. Amongst > > other contributions, he's well known for his ext2fs work done nearly ten > > years ago. > > > > Ogi: Regarding

Re: Ognyan Kulev added to Savannah hurd group

2013-02-15 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! By the way, generally, any spelling, formatting, and similar ("obvious") fixes can be "fast-tracked", and you can commit them without review. On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:03:33 +0200, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > After some days I'll create ogi/libdiskfs (continuation of >

Re: Fwd: Debian Hurd Installer problems

2013-02-15 Thread Nolan Tunnicliffe
Have you considered it could be a resent hard drive layout modification. I haven't had time to investigate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2010/04/01/the-facts-4k-advanced-fo rmat-hard-disks/1 http://support.dell.com/support/topics/

Re: [Google Summer of Code 2013] - Mozilla Rust language bindings

2013-02-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Nolan Tunnicliffe, le Fri 15 Feb 2013 17:07:39 +1300, a écrit : > >Samuel Thibault wrote > >I however have to say you probably underestimate the amount of work > >needed to write a driver. The language can help in some way, but not > >very much. The main part of difficulty is to manage to unde

Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished

2013-02-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Fri 15 Feb 2013 10:54:44 +0100, a écrit : > I did understand the code, but maybe the change went wrong. I would > really appreciate if you could help me to understand what's the problem > with the new code. > > Old code: (cleaning previously allocated ports when one FD is bogus

Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished

2013-02-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Fri 15 Feb 2013 08:25:59 +0100, a écrit : > The mail has an RFC in the > title. I did not claim that the rewrite was completed, did I? Yes, but for this kind of very complex code, it was way faster to just rewrite the thing than go through a review/fix ping-pong which would have