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Diffstat (limited to 'hurd')
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/debugging/translator/capturing_stdout_and_stderr.mdwn | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/running/qemu.mdwn | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/status.mdwn | 4 |
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/debugging/translator/capturing_stdout_and_stderr.mdwn b/hurd/debugging/translator/capturing_stdout_and_stderr.mdwn index 646738b1..1e8c4ef6 100644 --- a/hurd/debugging/translator/capturing_stdout_and_stderr.mdwn +++ b/hurd/debugging/translator/capturing_stdout_and_stderr.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] Sometimes it may already be helpful to capture a translator's `stdout` and -`stderr`, for example like this: +`stderr`, for example in this situation where [[translator/pfinet]] was +silently dying all the time, without any console output: $ sudo settrans -fgap ↩ /servers/socket/2 ↩ @@ -31,3 +32,7 @@ for appropriate `fflush`es on these, or force them to be line buffered again using the appropriate glibc magic (`setvbuf`). Otherwise you'll see text in the output files only if either glibc herself decides to flush (after some KiB of text) the after translator exits. + +It is a [[!taglink open_issue_hurd]] to decide / implement / fix that +(all?) running (passive?) translators' output should show up on the +console / syslog. diff --git a/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn b/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn index a059f3b1..48d87b35 100644 --- a/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn +++ b/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Now take the number of sectors for the beginning of the partition and multiply i ## Having QEMU create *virtual FAT disk images* -[Manual](http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC24). +[Manual](http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC25). QEMU has a facility to create FAT file systems on-the-fly: @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ If you just want to access the internet from within QEMU, you can setup pfinet f # settrans -afgp /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i eth0 -a 10.0.2.15 -g 10.0.2.2 -m 255.255.255.0 # echo "nameserver 10.0.2.3" > /etc/resolv.conf -(See also <http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC30>.) +(See also <http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC32>.) Outgoing internet connections should just work then. diff --git a/hurd/status.mdwn b/hurd/status.mdwn index a22802ff..3ee8ddcf 100644 --- a/hurd/status.mdwn +++ b/hurd/status.mdwn @@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ possibility that they would want to try the Hurd again in the future. > GNU/Linux system running in parallel, as a fallback for all the stuff > that doesn't work on the Hurd. > +> My everyday work includes reading/writing email and other texts, preparing and giving +> presentations, text-mode web browsing, viewing pictures, IRC, reading +> PDF documents, programming, and various other random stuff... +> > [...] > > One particular problem for desktop use is the fact that while X does |