mmap on GNU Hurd

2013-04-30 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:47:47 +, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > I've noticed that mmap() doesn't behave as expected There are known issues with mmap, in particular it (currently) doesn't work at all on filesystem based on libnetfs (such as NFS, ftpfs, etc.),

Re: [GSoC2013] question about "improve the GDB port for GNU Hurd"

2013-04-30 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:54:26 +0800, 陆岳 wrote: > I am interested in participating GsoC 2013 with GNU Hurd for improve > the GDB Port for GNU Hurd. Thanks for your interest! > Write this email I mainly to identify which work should I do in this > project. just Port gdbserver or something else

Re: [PATCH,HURD] Fix reading core

2013-04-30 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:41:17 -0700, Joel Brobecker wrote: > > The i386 GNU/Hurd ELF core format actually follows the uaccess gregset_t > > array format, not the Mach thread state format. This fixes gdb reading > > it. > > > > * gdb/i386gnu-nat.c (CREG_OFFSET): New macro. > > (creg_offset): N

Re: Applying for "Implementing libcap"

2013-04-30 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:03:46 +0800, harryxiyou wrote: > I wanna apply for "Implementing libcap" and > finish this project idea during GSOC 2013. Thanks for your interest! > Following are my basic infomations. [...] Nice, so you already have some experience with "systems programming". > C

Re: Clean up Mach Google Summer Of Code

2013-04-30 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi Josh! On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:18:15 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Joshua Branson, le Mon 15 Apr 2013 22:49:22 -0400, a écrit : > > Should I be focused only on fixing compiler > > warnings, unneeded variables, removing or modify strange code? > > As the subject says, it's actually quite open

Re: Applying for "Implementing libcap"

2013-04-30 Thread harryxiyou
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Hi! Hi Thomas, [...] > > Nice, so you already have some experience with "systems programming". > >> Could anyone give me some suggestions for my applying for >> "Implementing libcap"? > > Well, obviously first get some experience with the

Re: Applying for "Implementing libcap"

2013-04-30 Thread harryxiyou
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:16 PM, harryxiyou wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Thomas Schwinge > wrote: >> Hi! > > Hi Thomas, > [...] >> >> Nice, so you already have some experience with "systems programming". >> >>> Could anyone give me some suggestions for my applying for >>> "Implementi

Re: Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea.

2013-04-30 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! I'm sorry for the late answer. Ian, there's a question for you towards the bottom of the email. On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:22:15 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Fotis Koutoulakis > wrote: > > > > I am writing this email with regard to a potential project idea

Re: Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea.

2013-04-30 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > On I have just > updated/posted a getcontext/makecontext/setcontext/swapcontext usage > analysis. This might constitute a "road block": the Hurd currently does > not allow for cha

Perl Binding GSOC mentors?

2013-04-30 Thread Tekk
I'm interested in taking on the perl binding gsoc project, but it seems that there are currently no listed mentors for this project. anyone want to step up? If not, I'll be willing to try out the python bindings, assuming that anatoly is still up to it.

Re: mmap on GNU Hurd

2013-04-30 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Thomas Schwinge: > Hi! > > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:47:47 +, Jacob Appelbaum > wrote: >> I've noticed that mmap() doesn't behave as expected > > There are known issues with mmap, in particular it (currently) doesn't > work at all on filesystem based on libnetfs (such as NFS, ftpfs, etc.), > <

GSOC Perl Bindings

2013-04-30 Thread Tekk
First off, I apologize if you've already read this once, but looking at the the archive seem to say that the message wasn't believed and I think there was a race condition between my registering for the list and the send. Is anyone around willing to mentor me for the perl bindings project? I'd be

Perl Bindings GSOC Mentors?

2013-04-30 Thread Tekk
I'm interested in taking on the perl binding gsoc project, but it seems that there are currently no listed mentors for this project. anyone want to step up? If not, I'll be willing to try out the python bindings, assuming that anatoly is still up to it.