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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2012-07-12 16:14:10 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2012-07-12 16:14:10 +0200
commita29dec0b89f2961c8af41e6cd851b4ed9c9d28d8 (patch)
treec18ec30ed2c53c0b3feb41a92de2938ee582a764
parentd72694b33a81919368365da2c35d5b4a264648e0 (diff)
hurd/translator/procfs: jkoenig/master supersedes the previous one.
-rw-r--r--community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn2
-rw-r--r--hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn28
-rw-r--r--hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig.mdwn23
-rw-r--r--hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn13
-rw-r--r--news/2010-09.mdwn5
5 files changed, 23 insertions, 48 deletions
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn
index e6b484af..ac5fa6d8 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
[[procfs|madhusudancs]] as a [[GSoC 2008 project|2008]].
[!] This was not the end of the story: [[jkoenig's
-`procfs`|hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig]] is yet another re-written and
+`procfs`|hurd/translator/procfs]] is yet another re-written and
improved version.
---
diff --git a/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn
index 70448e94..cccce0b7 100644
--- a/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 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
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
-is included in the section entitled
-[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
Although there is no standard (POSIX or other) for the layout of the `/proc`
pseudo-filesystem, it turned out a very useful facility in GNU/Linux and other
@@ -23,13 +23,23 @@ management tools to work. (On Linux, the `/proc` filesystem is used also for
debugging purposes; but this is highly system-specific anyways, so there is
probably no point in trying to duplicate this functionality as well...)
-*Status*: Madhusudan.C.S has implemented a new, fully functional [[procfs|madhusudancs]] for
-[[GSoC 2008|community/gsoc/2008]].
+Ther was an implementation in [[open_issues/HurdExtras]],
+<http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#procfs>.
+Madhusudan.C.S has implemented a new, fully functional [[procfs|madhusudancs]] for
+[[GSoC 2008|community/gsoc/2008]].
-# [[New Implementation by Jérémie Koenig|jkoenig]]
+In August 2010, Jérémie Koenig [published another, new
+version](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00165.html).
+This can be found in <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/procfs.git/>.
+Testing it is as simple as this:
-# Old Implementation from [[open_issues/HurdExtras]]
+ $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/hurd/procfs.git
+ $ cd procfs/
+ $ git checkout master
+ $ make
+ $ settrans -ca proc procfs --compatible
+ $ ls -l proc/
-<http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#procfs>
+[[Open issues|jkoenig/discussion]].
diff --git a/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig.mdwn b/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index 9543b658..00000000
--- a/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 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
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
-Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
-is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
-License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
-
-In August 2010, Jérémie Koenig [published another, new
-version](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00165.html).
-This can be found in <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/procfs.git/>,
-branch *jkoenig/master*.
-
-Testing it is as simple as this:
-
- $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/hurd/procfs.git
- $ cd procfs/
- $ git checkout jkoenig/master
- $ make
- $ settrans -ca proc procfs --compatible
- $ ls -l proc/
diff --git a/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn b/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn
index 182b438b..4f6492ed 100644
--- a/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn
@@ -18,9 +18,6 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
IRC, #hurd, around September 2010
- <youpi> jkoenig: from a quick read, your procfs implementation seems quite
- simple, probably much more what I was expecting from Madhusudan (who
- probably now hates you :) )
<youpi> jkoenig: is it not possible to provide a /proc/self which points at
the client's pid?
<pinotree> (also, shouldn't /proc/version say something else than "Linux"?)
@@ -310,16 +307,6 @@ Needed by glibc's `pldd` tool (commit
<jkoenig> pinotree, it's probably what happened, yes.
-# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-06-30
-
- <pinotree> btw, what do you think about making jkoening's procfs master the
- real master?
- <youpi> probably a good idea
- <youpi> it does work quite well, except a few pidof hangs
- <pinotree> surely better than the old one :)
- <youpi> yes :)
-
-
# `/proc/[PID]/cwd`
## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-06-30
diff --git a/news/2010-09.mdwn b/news/2010-09.mdwn
index 2829de73..a35e1b3e 100644
--- a/news/2010-09.mdwn
+++ b/news/2010-09.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2012 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
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@ on actually making tarfs and good ol' gopherfs usable.
Similar treatment [has been
applied](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-09/msg00055.html) to
-Jérémie Koenig's new [[procfs|hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig]] implementation;
+Jérémie Koenig's new [[hurd/translator/procfs]] implementation;
this one is now [used in Debian
GNU/Hurd](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/commit-hurd/2010-09/msg00063.html).