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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2026-08-24 23:54:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2026-08-24 23:54:31 +0200 |
| commit | 340d3230a94d15342c611d4e70aa148cbb39d558 (patch) | |
| tree | 022010248a619915e228c499b3b465a7e9029b7e | |
| parent | ef57b972ccdca085ddcf65b623f1dd4abc90f327 (diff) | |
Add uuid contribution idea
| -rw-r--r-- | contributing.mdwn | 1 |
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diff --git a/contributing.mdwn b/contributing.mdwn index 2d570460..816d6adb 100644 --- a/contributing.mdwn +++ b/contributing.mdwn @@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ This is the list of tasks that we *want* to address soon, starting with the most * Rewrite `pthread_cond_*`, `pthread_rwlock_*`, `pthread_barrier_*` to use `gsync`, like `pthread_mutex_*` do (also see the nptl implementations, possibly just share with them). * Improve rumpdisk's asynchronism, see end of `hurd/rumpdisk/block-rump.c`. * Check performance of `rumpdisk` against the in-`gnumach` drivers. +* Add a uuid translator that would use `libblkid` to probe the different available disks and partitions and their filesystems UUIDs, to be used in the bootstrap chain so grub can designate the root filesystem through a UUID rather than a device name. It would be useful to serve a /dev/disk/by-uuid too. * Finish glib's file monitoring (see [merge request draft](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/3626) and [Debian bug](https://bugs.debian.org/1008208)) * In htl, make `__pthread_getid` take a reference in `thread->nr_refs` to keep the `struct __pthread` alive until its called is finished with it. * Then, make `ss` allocated in `__pthread_thread_alloc` and freed in `__pthread_thread_terminate`. |