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| author | Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> | 2013-04-14 17:36:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> | 2013-04-14 17:36:08 +0200 |
| commit | b3435a3f4348f7959cae7c137f7cfd68fb16b37b (patch) | |
| tree | cb1e93c72a0d53c15419e7827fca85bb65d60d76 | |
| parent | bc02c8f8d4ea59ac183856b8807a705b219008a9 (diff) | |
qoth: gathered the news items for 2012-q3 and q4
| -rw-r--r-- | contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn index bcacae9e..b906f3f0 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn @@ -38,9 +38,13 @@ News items: - Samuel Thibault pushed the [pthread patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00088.html) from Vincente, Barry, Thomas, Richard and Samuel and others to the different upstream packages, finally enabling modern pthreads for the Hurd, which makes it possible to implement full Hurd bindings for languages which require pthreads, so for example [PyHurd](http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pyhurd/) can profit from the Hurd libraries instead of having to rely on low-level Mach bindings to implement Hurd features. - Thomas Schwinge fixed [some errors](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00077.html) which caused a miscalculation of the size of medium sized disks reporting 15 heads instead of 16. - Svante Signell [improved](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00062.html) the error handling in pflocal, -- Pino Toscano [implemented syncfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00046.html) which ensures that all data in the filesystem gets written to disk. +- Pino Toscano [implemented syncfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00046.html) which ensures that all data in the filesystem gets written to disk, as well as [statfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00005.html), which adds some additional statistics to procfs. - Matthew Leach [fixed](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00037.html) a compilation error with older GCC versions due to duplicate type definition. - +- Samuel Thibault [provided](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00052.html) new [installation CDs](http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/current) and a new [qemu image](http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/). +- Thomas Schwinge [debugged and fixed](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00044.html) a deadlock with child threads resulting from a regression due to earlier fixes. +- Cyril Roelandt shared a [patch series](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00018.html) to fix double mutex unlocking with pthreads. We will likely see more fixes like these, given that the whole threading interface changed. +- Cyril Roelandt fixed a [ps](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00012.html). +- Still to do: everything starting from http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/threads.html |