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diff --git a/user/jkoenig/java.mdwn b/user/jkoenig/java.mdwn index b289c0ed..868dec2b 100644 --- a/user/jkoenig/java.mdwn +++ b/user/jkoenig/java.mdwn @@ -23,6 +23,14 @@ For details, see my original [[proposal]]. ## Current status +Feeling slightly behind schedule; but project is very ambitious, which has been +known from the beginning, and there is great progress, so there is no problem. +--[[tschwinge]], 2011-06-29. + +[[tschwinge]] will be on vacations in China starting July 26th, will have +Internet access intermittently, but not regularely. We'll have to figure out +some scheme. + ### Apt repository @@ -82,17 +90,11 @@ for broader testing. * Test patches: in progress, [[jkoenig]], Svante. More volunteers welcome, of course. - > Current status: there's an issue with gdb, + > There's an issue with gdb, > namely signals lose their "untracedness" when they go > through the global sigstate's pending mask, > so gdb spins intercepting a signal and trying to deliver it. - > My current - > [patch](http://github.com/jeremie-koenig/glibc/commit/3ecb990e9d08d5f75adc40b738b35a1802cc0943) - > makes the system unstable. - > --[[jkoenig]] 2011-06-22 - - >> Correction: the patch is fine, problem solved. - >> --[[jkoenig]] 2011-06-29 + > [Patch](http://github.com/jeremie-koenig/glibc/commit/3ecb990e9d08d5f75adc40b738b35a1802cc0943). * If [[jkoenig]] thinks it's mature enough: should ask [[Samuel|samuelthibault]] to test these patches on the buildds. @@ -102,24 +104,43 @@ for broader testing. > (in particular hurd) > --[[jkoenig]] 2011-06-22 + * Waiting on ABI finalization ([!] Roland). + + * Which numeric values to use for `SA_SIGINFO` (and `SA_NOCLDWAIT`)? + + > Staying in sync with BSD seems the most logical approach, + > so I have defined it to 0x40. --[[jkoenig]] 2011-06-29 + * Get patches reviewed (Roland?), and integrated into official sources: [!] [[tschwinge]]. > In progress. --[[jkoenig]] 2011-06-29 - * Documentations bits (from [[proposal]] and elsewhere) should probably be + * Documentations bits (from here, the initial [[proposal]], and elsewhere) + should probably be moved either into the appropriate glibc or Hurd documentation files/reference manuals, or to [[glibc/signal]]. - * `SA_SIGINFO` patche is based on [[Samuel|samuelthibault]]'s earlier work. + * `SA_SIGINFO` patch is based on [[Samuel|samuelthibault]]'s earlier work. Thus, have him review the new patch? - * Perhaps have a look at `SA_NOCLDWAIT`. + * `SA_SIGINFO` patch has a few TODOs w.r.t. protocol changes for missing + information, and for FPU state. Providing even incomplete information is + an improvement on the current status. The question is, whether + applications rely on this information in any hard way if `SA_SIGINFO` is + available? + + * We could possibly rename certain fields in `struct siginfo`, say + `si_pid_not_implemented`, to ensure compilation failures for programs + which use them. Or perhaps a linker warning is possible. - * Which numeric values to use for `SA_SIGINFO` (and `SA_NOCLDWAIT`)? + * The FPU state is not included in the `ucontext_t` passed to the signal + handler. On the other hand, `ucontext_t` is actually being somewhat + deprecated: the functions to restore it are no longer in POSIX. + `thread_get_state`() should return this information, in case we decide + to fill the gap, and there might be existing glibc wrappers, too. - > Staying in sync with BSD seems the most logical approach, - > so I have defined it to 0x40. --[[jkoenig]] 2011-06-29 + * Perhaps have a look at `SA_NOCLDWAIT`. ### Port OpenJDK @@ -184,6 +205,12 @@ have so far prevented me from testing it. * [!] [[Samuel|samuelthibault]]/[[tschwinge]]/[[jkoenig]]: [[toolchain/ELFOSABI_HURD]]. + * 2011-06-29: No progress. + + * `libthread_db.so` issue. Likely, the Serviceability Agent is used by jdb + and the like only, so for now the goal should be to lose some functionality + by removing/avoiding this dependency. + * They seem to have a rather heavy-weight process for such projects: confer <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2011-January/000092.html>, for example. Do we need this, too? |