explain the posix_spawn error

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