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diff --git a/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig.mdwn b/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1275ce52 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 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 +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +In August 2010, Jérémie Koenig [published another, new +version](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00165.html). +This can be found in <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/procfs.git/>, +branch *jkoenig/master*. + +Testing it is as simple as this: + + $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/hurd/procfs.git + $ cd procfs/ + $ git checkout jkoenig/master + $ make + $ settrans -ca proc procfs --compatible + $ ls -l proc/ + + +# Open Issues + +[[!tag open_issue_hurd]] + + * IRC, #hurd, around September 2010 + + <youpi> jkoenig: from a quick read, your procfs implementation seems quite + simple, probably much more what I was expecting from Madhusudan (who probably + now hates you :) ) + <youpi> jkoenig: is it not possible to provide a /proc/self which points at the + client's pid? + <pinotree> (also, shouldn't /proc/version say something else than "Linux"?) + <youpi> to make linux tools work, no :/ + <youpi> kfreebsd does that too + <pinotree> really? + <youpi> yes + <youpi> (kfreebsd, not freebsd) + <pinotree> does kbsd's one print just "Linux version x.y.z" too, or something + more eg in a second line? + <pinotree> (as curiosity) + <youpi> % cat /proc/version + <youpi> Linux version 2.6.16 (des@freebsd.org) (gcc version 4.3.5) #4 Sun Dec + 18 04:30:00 CET 1977 + <pinotree> k + <giselher> I had some problems with killall5 to read the pid from /proc, Is + this now more reliable? + <youpi> I haven't tested with jkoenig's implementation + [...] + <pinotree> looks like he did 'self' too, see rootdir_entries[] in rootdir.c + <youpi> but it doesn't point at self + <antrik> youpi: there is no way to provide /proc/self, because the server + doesn't know the identity of the client + <youpi> :/ + <antrik> youpi: using the existing mechanisms, we would need another magic + lookup type + <antrik> an alternative idea I discussed with cfhammer once would be for the + client to voluntarily provide it's identity to the server... but that would + be a rather fundamental change that requires careful consideration + <antrik> also, object migration could be used, so the implementation would be + provided by the server, but the execution would happen in the client... but + that's even more involved :-) + <youpi> but we've seen how much that'd help with a lot of other stuff + <antrik> I'm not sure whether we discussed this on the ML at some point, or + only on IRC + <youpi> it "just" needs to be commited :) + <antrik> in either case, it can't hurt to bring this up again :-) + + * IRC, #hurd, around October 2010 + + <pinotree> the only glitch is that files/dirs have the right user as + owner, but always with root group |