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This month [hurd hacker]  [item]

<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00079.html> -- Bouju
Alain submitted a patch to suport cpuinfo in the /proc interface

rbraun committed the last patch to mplanetas branch of the slab allocator
work, for integration.

IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-11-14:

Features:

    (22:30:39) braunr: there shouldn't be any noticeable difference with the
      master branch
    (22:30:46) braunr: a bit less fragmentation
    (22:30:55) braunr: more memory can be reclaimed by the VM system
    (22:31:02) braunr: there are debugging features
    (22:31:06) braunr: it's SMP ready
    (22:31:15) braunr: and overall cleaner than the zone allocator
    (22:31:31) braunr: although a bit slower on the free path (because of
      what's performed to reduce fragmentation)
    (22:32:42) braunr: but even "slower" here is completely negligible

**New porter box: exodar***

I/O Path Documentation [[hurd/io_path/]]

Debugging: 

- Pino Toscano: recvfrom() with null http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00161.html
- Maksym Planeta: tmpfs http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00125.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00118.html 
- Samuel Thibault: libtool http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00073.html mknod http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00070.html 
- Jim Meyering: gnu tools with user id 4294967295 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00094.html
- Paul Eggert:  Add error-checking on GNU http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00130.html
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Bouju Alain: Procfs with cpuinfo http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00084.html

Social network sites for GNU Hurd: 

- Google+: https://plus.google.com/114942488385711891227#114942488385711891227/posts
- identi.ca: http://identi.ca/group/hurd

Ludovic Courtès: 

- Continuously-built Nix-based QEMU image: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00047.html
- modern Autoconf initialization: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00068.html
- Allow /hurd/init to be a symlink: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00032.html
- The Hurd now builds with Savannah’s libc (2.14+): http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00025.html

Pino Toscano and Thomas Schwinge: pthread improvements: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00027.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00020.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00013.html


(bug hurd done till 2011-11 (inclusive))


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