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| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/debugging/translator/capturing_stdout_and_stderr.mdwn | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/running/qemu.mdwn | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/status.mdwn | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | microkernel/mach/gnumach/debugging.mdwn | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | open_issues/adduser.mdwn | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu.mdwn | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user/scolobb.mdwn | 19 |
7 files changed, 34 insertions, 17 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 diff --git a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/debugging.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/debugging.mdwn index 38cc7911..3a93c6ad 100644 --- a/microkernel/mach/gnumach/debugging.mdwn +++ b/microkernel/mach/gnumach/debugging.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 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 @@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ Mach has a built-in kernel debugger. When you're [[running_a_system_in_QEMU|hurd/running/qemu]] you can directly [use GDB on the running -kernel](http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC36). +kernel](http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC48). Alternatively you can use an approach like this one: add the following code diff --git a/open_issues/adduser.mdwn b/open_issues/adduser.mdwn index ac4de2dd..0bfdccbd 100644 --- a/open_issues/adduser.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/adduser.mdwn @@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ is included in the section entitled `adduser` does work as expected, the following warnings are spurious, they just appear when one doesn't have the nscd package. They do not appear on linux boxes -because there posix_spawn doesn't report ENOENT... +because there posix_spawn doesn't report ENOENT for exec(). Posix indeed says +that `if the error occurs after the calling process successfully returns, the +child process shall exit with exit status 127'. The hurd doesn't do this, it should. $ sudo adduser foo Adding user `foo' ... @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2005, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2005, 2007, 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 @@ -31,6 +32,5 @@ emulation under the [[GPL]]. # External Links - * <http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/> - * <http://kidsquid.com/cgi-bin/moin.cgi> QEMU Wiki + * <http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/> * [Qemu on Windows](http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/) diff --git a/user/scolobb.mdwn b/user/scolobb.mdwn index 2182f12e..2f8ea542 100644 --- a/user/scolobb.mdwn +++ b/user/scolobb.mdwn @@ -82,20 +82,25 @@ For documentation, see [[hurd/translator/unionmount]]. by the comments in the sources. The goal is to write a more coherent documentation. +* **Start with a clean unionfs and implement the `--mount` argument** + *(11 Jun)* It was suggested to implement the union mount + functionality first, instead of doing some partial adaptation of + `unionfs` to `unionmount` and leaving the complete adaptation for + the future. + +* **Compile GNU/Hurd from source to be able to study + eth-multiplexer.** *(16 Jun)* On my way to getting a working + instance of eth-multiplexer I learnt how I could compile GNU/Hurd in + a Debian GNU/Hurd system. + ### TODO (Dates in brackets show the *expected* completion date) -* **Study eth-multiplexer.** *(12 Jun)* In order to get an idea of +* **Study eth-multiplexer.** *(19 Jun)* In order to get an idea of what should the rules for eth-multipexer be, I will have to study the current state of eth-multiplexer. -* **Start with a clean unionfs and implement the `--mount` argument** - *(12 Jun)* It was suggested to implement the union mount - functionality first, instead of doing some partial adaptation of - `unionfs` to `unionmount` and leaving the complete adaptation for - the future. - * **Implement merging rules.** *(25 Jul)* Some details are still awaiting discovery by me. |