Merge branch 'master' of braunbox:~hurd-web/hurd-web

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diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print.mdwn
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--- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/syscall/mach_print.mdwn
@@ -59,3 +59,32 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
       it
 
 [[Makefile]], [[mach_print.S]], [[main.c]].
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+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-07-01
+
+    <youpi> braunr: btw, we are missing the symbol in mach/Versions
+    <braunr> youpi: what symbol ?
+    <youpi> so the libc-provided RPC stub is not available
+    <youpi> mach_printf
+    <youpi> -f
+    <braunr> it's a system calll
+    <braunr> not exported
+    <youpi> s/RPC/system call/
+    <braunr> that's expected
+    <youpi> libc does provide stubs for system calls too
+    <braunr> yes but not for this one
+    <youpi> I don't see why we wouldn't want to include it
+    <youpi> ?! it does
+    <braunr> it's temporary
+    <braunr> oh
+    <braunr> there must be automatic parsing during build
+    <youpi> sure
+    <braunr> nice
+
+    <braunr> youpi: if we're going to make this system call exported by glibc,
+      i should change its interface first
+    <braunr> it was meant as a very quick-and-dirty hack and directly accesses
+      the caller's address space without going through a special copy-from-user
+      function
+    <braunr> not very portable