Re: [PATCH 1/4] guix: build/glib-or-gtk-build-system: Add support for GIO and XDG theming.

2014-12-19 Thread 宋文武
Federico Beffa writes: > I added support for GIO and theming data according to the XDG specifications. > > https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/running-gio-apps.html > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/ > > Regards, > Fede > From c726b525111ff2f8055f7f2be98b7a5e61a8a96e Mon Sep 17

Avoiding threads in the daemon

2014-12-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nix commit 524f89 changed libstore to use fork + unshare instead of clone(2). The problem is that, in doing so, it also removed use of CLONE_NEWPID and thus, (1) the build process no longer has PID 1, and (2) build processes end up in the global PID space. Adding CLONE_NEWPID to the unshare(2) ca

Re: [PATCH] services: xorg: Make SLiM sessions configurable.

2014-12-19 Thread 宋文武
Ludovic Courtès writes: > 宋文武 skribis: > >> * gnu/services/xorg.scm (%default-xsessions): New variable. >> (xsessions-directory): New procedure. >> (slim-service): Add #:sessions parameter. >> [slim.cfg]: Honor #:sessions. >> (xinitrc): Adjust accordingly. > > Nice! > >> -;; Then

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add bowtie.

2014-12-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > PS: This depends on the Perl module "Clone" for which I sent a patch > previously. Although you said it was applied I haven't yet seen it in > the git repository. My bad: I applied it and then forgot to push. Sorry! > From 96f31057ba6bb17c1801f87d4bbae70dd3539576 Mon

Re: [PATCH 3/4] gnu: Add cairocffi.

2014-12-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > I hope to eventually add some mechanism to detect and/or avoid these > problems in the future. In the meantime, we'll just have to accept that > this problem will occasionally bite us. I don't think it's reasonable > to expect people to do a "make clean-go && make" ever

Re: Avoiding threads in the daemon

2014-12-19 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 18/12/14 17:32, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Thus, I think Nix commit 49fe95 (which introduces monitor-fd.hh, which > uses std::thread just for convenience) should be reverted, along with > the subsequent commits to that file; then commit 524f89 can be reverted. I really don't want to get rid

Re: [Nix-dev] Avoiding threads in the daemon

2014-12-19 Thread Shea Levy
Can't you unshare in the parent then setns back after fork? > On Dec 19, 2014, at 18:20, Eelco Dolstra wrote: > > Hi, > >> On 18/12/14 17:32, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> >> Thus, I think Nix commit 49fe95 (which introduces monitor-fd.hh, which >> uses std::thread just for convenience) should b

Re: [Nix-dev] Avoiding threads in the daemon

2014-12-19 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 19/12/14 19:41, Shea Levy wrote: > Can't you unshare in the parent then setns back after fork? In a multi-threaded program, that sounds incredibly racy :-) (Though it's not clear to me whether unshare() works on the current process or the current thread. Manpage says process...) -- Eel

Re: [PATCH] services: xorg: Make SLiM sessions configurable.

2014-12-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
宋文武 skribis: > From 144bf00b86f6884615d986598ccc62a3c4747eef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: =?UTF-8?q?=E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6?= > Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:21:46 +0800 > Subject: [PATCH] services: xorg: Make SLiM sessions configurable. > > * gnu/services/xorg.scm (%default-xsessions): New

Re: Avoiding threads in the daemon

2014-12-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Eelco Dolstra skribis: > On 18/12/14 17:32, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> Thus, I think Nix commit 49fe95 (which introduces monitor-fd.hh, which >> uses std::thread just for convenience) should be reverted, along with >> the subsequent commits to that file; then commit 524f89 can be reverted.

Re: [Nix-dev] Avoiding threads in the daemon

2014-12-19 Thread Luca Bruno
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Hmm, I’m not convinced about the whole threads-for-convenience approach > à la Java. (I think the ideal is a single-threaded event loop; of > course we want to avoid IoC, and this is where FRP or monads come in.) > It is instead for t

Nix subset merged

2014-12-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Until now there was a ‘nix-upstream’ Git submodule, which pointed to the upstream Nix repository. The ‘sync-with-upstream’ script would copy from nix-upstream/ to nix/ the subset of the code that we need, and patch a couple of things. With commit 3645756, the Nix code needed for the daemon has be

Re: [PATCH] services: xorg: Make SLiM sessions configurable.

2014-12-19 Thread 宋文武
Ludovic Courtès writes: > 宋文武 skribis: > >> From 144bf00b86f6884615d986598ccc62a3c4747eef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: =?UTF-8?q?=E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6?= >> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:21:46 +0800 >> Subject: [PATCH] services: xorg: Make SLiM sessions configurable. >> >> * gnu/services/

New xorg-updates branch pushed

2014-12-19 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hello Guix! I've pushed a new branch 'xorg-updates' which updates almost every package in xorg.scm, as well as mesa, dbus, glib, pixman, cairo, poppler, inkscape, and a few others. My original purpose was to apply security fixes mentioned here: http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Security/Adviso