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-Date: Tue, 05 Jul 1994 20:15:09 -0400
-From: mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
-To: hurd-ann@gnu.ai.mit.edu
-Subject: New Hurd snapshot
-
-
-A new Hurd snapshot has been released. You can get it from
-alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu in the file /gnu/hurd-snap.tar.gz. You will need
-the most recent version of the GNU C library; version 1.08.3 or later.
-(Version 1.08.3 is an alpha release; you can get it from
-alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu in the same directory.)
-
-This snapshot of the Hurd has a limping terminal driver. It can run
-emacs, bash, a whole slew of utilities, and (most importantly) GNU
-Hello.
-
- -mib
-
-
-Here is the new part of the NEWS file:
-
-The Hurd now runs all the programs in the GNU fileutils, textutils,
-and shellutils distributions, with the exception of who. Most
-importantly it runs GNU Hello. Also, emacs works (with the kludgy
-`boot' terminal driver) and bash works.
-
-The simple pipes server works; it will be replaced eventually by the
-pflocal server (which isn't done yet). The terminal driver is limping
-but working. It doesn't support terminal ioctls yet. A minor bug in
-auth has been fixed. boot interprets more Hurd protocols; this was
-done to get emacs functioning. Some more-or-less serious bugs in exec
-were fixed; they were found by running emacs (a quite large executable
-indeed). At bootstrap time, init starts pipes and term itself;
-eventually these will be passive translators, but we don't want to
-write the new disk format until we're self-hosting or fsck and UX will
-get confused. The file proc/primes.c has been documented; thanks go
-to Jim Blandy. Some bugs in proc dealing with pgrp and wait were
-fixed; a nasty hash table bug was also fixed. The simple shell can do
-pipes. Several serious bugs in ufs were fixed dealing with extension
-of large files and writes of data not aligned on block boundaries.
-The ufs pager was over-serialized; that's been fixed. Directory
-lookups and modifications now use mapped I/O directly; this is an
-important speed-up. The structure of the pager lockes has been
-changed significantly. UFS now supports Mach copying mode
-MEMORY_OBJECT_COPY_DELAY; this significantly improves process startup
-time.
-
-Some minor changes have been made to several interfaces. The
-interface for fs.defs:dir_readdir has been totally changed. There are
-some new fs.defs interfaces: file_check_access, file_notice_changes,
-dir_notice_changes. The fsys.defs:fsys_getroot interface was changed
-to work correctly. process.defs:proc_setprocargs is renamed, and a
-fetch function proc_get_arg_locations is added. The ifsock.defs
-interface was simplified.
-
-Several bugs were fixed in libdiskfs. The new dir_readdir interface
-requires new support from format-specific code. Some race conditions
-have been fixed. dir-pathtrans.c now deals correctly with multiple
-slashes in a row. A new concept called "light references" allows
-pagers to remain active without preventing truncate-on-nolinks from
-working right. New interfaces in fs.defs are implemented (except
-file_notice_changes). Active translator usage has been fixed to work
-correctly, but passive translators are still untested. libdiskfs now
-thinks it supports S_IFSOCK nodes, but that's untested (of course)
-because pflocal isn't done yet.
-
-The passive translator startup interface in libfshelp has been
-radically simplified. The pager library now lets other code set and
-changee the attributes on objects, synchronously if desired. An
-init/terminate race condition was fixed. The ports library now
-allows single-threaded users to work right (they didn't before). The
-trivfs library works; see the ifsock server for a simple example of
-its use. See term or pipes for more complex examples.
-
-There is a task list in the file `tasks'; let me know if you are
-interested in working on one of these.
-