Re: System calls interrupted by signals - or not

2018-02-01 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic writes: >>This can happen if interrupted by a signal, > > If only BSD-style signals (SA_RESTART) are used, as is very likely, this > should not happen. Guile is a library meant for use within existing applications, and therefore needs to be able to cope with whate

Re: System calls interrupted by signals - or not

2018-02-01 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Mark, On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 03:13:33 -0500 Mark H Weaver wrote: > Guile is a library meant for use within existing applications, and > therefore needs to be able to cope with whatever signal handling policy > those applications have chosen. We certainly cannot assume that all > kinds of signal

Re: Thursday dinner in Brussels

2018-02-01 Thread Chris Marusich
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hey hey! > > For those of us available on Thursday evening (that’s ~4 people > currently?), I suggest meeting in the bar called “Au Bon Vieux Temps” > downtown around 7PM, and from there we can look for a place to eat: > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/no

Re: Thursday dinner in Brussels

2018-02-01 Thread julien lepiller
Le 2018-02-01 10:47, Chris Marusich a écrit : l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Hey hey! For those of us available on Thursday evening (that’s ~4 people currently?), I suggest meeting in the bar called “Au Bon Vieux Temps” downtown around 7PM, and from there we can look for a place to eat

Re: Thursday dinner in Brussels

2018-02-01 Thread Gábor Boskovits
2018-02-01 11:12 GMT+01:00 julien lepiller : > Le 2018-02-01 10:47, Chris Marusich a écrit : > >> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >> Hey hey! >>> >>> For those of us available on Thursday evening (that’s ~4 people >>> currently?), I suggest meeting in the bar called “Au Bon Vieux Temps”

Re: 03/03: gnu: python-dateutil: Update to 2.6.1.

2018-02-01 Thread Marius Bakke
Alex Vong writes: > Ben Woodcroft writes: > >> On 31/01/18 16:18, Alex Vong wrote: >>> Ben Woodcroft writes: >>> Hi Mark, Marius, On 31/01/18 12:52, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Hi, > > mba...@fastmail.com (Marius Bakke) writes: > >> mbakke pushed a commit to b

Re: Dinner in Brussels?

2018-02-01 Thread Björn Höfling
On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 00:43:33 +0100 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Hello, > > Björn Höfling skribis: > > > If there is space left, I would join for the dinner on Friday. Has > > someone reserved a restaurant yet? I enjoyed the Lebanese food from > > last year very much, though it was ma

Re: Maintaining implementations of similar utility functions like json-fetch

2018-02-01 Thread Catonano
2018-01-31 18:32 GMT+01:00 Jelle Licht : > Hi Ludo', > > > 2018-01-27 17:09 GMT+01:00 Ludovic Courtès : > >> Hello! >> >> Jelle Licht skribis: >> >> > I noticed that there are currently two very similar functions for >> fetching >> > json data; `json-fetch' in (guix import json) and `json-fetch*'

Re: Maintaining implementations of similar utility functions like json-fetch

2018-02-01 Thread Gábor Boskovits
2018-02-01 12:54 GMT+01:00 Catonano : > > > 2018-01-31 18:32 GMT+01:00 Jelle Licht : > >> Hi Ludo', >> >> >> 2018-01-27 17:09 GMT+01:00 Ludovic Courtès : >> >>> Hello! >>> >>> Jelle Licht skribis: >>> >>> > I noticed that there are currently two very similar functions for >>> fetching >>> > json

Re: Dualbooting with guixsd not handling grub installation

2018-02-01 Thread Félicien Pillot
Hi Oleg, Le Thu, 01 Feb 2018 09:14:54 +0300, Oleg Pykhalov a écrit : > We could start by adding a way to add anything. Here is a patch. > Probably ugly, but as a draft and idea about additional-options. > When I try your patch (to solve the dualboot problem I have too) I get this error: /etc/

Re: Export environment variables only in `guix environment`.

2018-02-01 Thread Fis Trivial
Hi: Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello, > > Fis Trivial skribis: > >> * Problem >> The exported environment variables can cause various problems in foreign >> distribution(1)(2). And besides, The long list of environment variables(4) >> injected into user's login shell makes the user's environment

Re: Export environment variables only in `guix environment`.

2018-02-01 Thread Fis Trivial
Pjotr Prins writes: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 12:40:39AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Fis Trivial skribis: >> >> > * Problem >> > The exported environment variables can cause various problems in foreign >> > distribution(1)(2). And besides, The long list of environment variabl

Re: Pre-built binaries vs. performance

2018-02-01 Thread Fis Trivial
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Guix! > > This post is a followup to our previous discussions on how to handle > architecture-specific optimizations: > > > https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/blog/2018/01/pre-built-binaries-vs-performance/ > > Comments welcome! > > Ludo’. Instructions support

Re: Pre-built binaries vs. performance

2018-02-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Fis Trivial skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hello Guix! >> >> This post is a followup to our previous discussions on how to handle >> architecture-specific optimizations: >> >> >> https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/blog/2018/01/pre-built-binaries-vs-performance/ >> >> Comments

Re: Pre-built binaries vs. performance

2018-02-01 Thread Fis Trivial
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello, > > Fis Trivial skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Hello Guix! >>> >>> This post is a followup to our previous discussions on how to handle >>> architecture-specific optimizations: >>> >>> >>> https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/blog/2018/01/pre-built

Re: Pre-built binaries vs. performance

2018-02-01 Thread Fis Trivial
Fis Trivial writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hello, >> >> Fis Trivial skribis: >> >>> Ludovic Courtès writes: >>> Hello Guix! This post is a followup to our previous discussions on how to handle architecture-specific optimizations: https://guix-hpc.bor

Re: Export environment variables only in `guix environment`.

2018-02-01 Thread Chris Marusich
Fis Trivial writes: > * Problem > The exported environment variables can cause various problems in foreign > distribution(1)(2). And besides, The long list of environment variables(4) > injected into user's login shell makes the user's environment impure. A lot of software is intended to be dyna

Re: Pre-built binaries vs. performance

2018-02-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Fis Trivial skribis: > So, we can build packages in a generic way, and then provide optional > dependencies. > In this case, we treat SSE as default dependency and AVX2 as an optional > dependency, let users specify whether they want it or not. > AVX2 need not to be actual packages, it's just an

Re: Dinner in Brussels?

2018-02-01 Thread Thomas Danckaert
From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) Subject: Dinner in Brussels? Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:34:46 +0100 To those going to the Guix workshop in Brussels this Friday: who’s in for dinner (+ drink) on Friday evening? Hi, I probably won't be able to come tomorrow (all day and evening) due to un

Looking for a sysadmin colleague to work on Guix and more

2018-02-01 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hello there, the research group where I’m working is currently looking for a new colleague for me to increase the size of our support team to three people. Unlike the previous job ads, this one explicitly mentions work on Guix to support researchers using the HPC cluster. Regular sysadmin tasks

Re: 01/01: gnu: Update SELinux packages.

2018-02-01 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Mark, > rek...@elephly.net (Ricardo Wurmus) writes: > >> rekado pushed a commit to branch master >> in repository guix. >> >> commit ca56021c2636130244ba41018161ca69805bc6b9 >> Author: Ricardo Wurmus >> Date: Thu Jan 25 00:30:37 2018 +0100 >> >> gnu: Update SELinux packages. >> >> *