From 77aa8ed7424f496832e36d49066069e078854fae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 02:18:06 +0200 Subject: qoth: added news for 2012-08 and 2012-09 --- contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'contributing') diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn index efce525c..79be251a 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Will be set by tschwinge when publishing. -A quarter of the Hurd, Q2 of 2012: *TODO*, *TODo* and *TODo*. +A quarter of the Hurd, Q2 of 2012: *TODO*, *TODO* and *TODo*. [[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]""" else=" @@ -25,8 +25,17 @@ else=" -For details, see Richards report about running +News items: + +- For details, see Richards report about running [Hurd without dependency on cthreads](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-08/msg00062.html). +- new cd images with keyboard layout configuration http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-07/msg00048.html +- Pino Toscano: FIFO sockets with mknod (test passes now) http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-09/msg00053.html +- Pino Toscano added a size parameter to tmpfs for easier usage in scripts: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-09/msg00005.html +- Pino Toscano added procfs fixes http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-09/msg00004.html + +Still to do: everything starting from october 2012 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-10/threads.html + This quarter [hurd hacker] [item] -- cgit v1.3.1 From bc02c8f8d4ea59ac183856b8807a705b219008a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:38:12 +0200 Subject: qoth: processed bug-hurd october and november. --- contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'contributing') diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn index 79be251a..bcacae9e 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn @@ -31,10 +31,18 @@ News items: [Hurd without dependency on cthreads](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-08/msg00062.html). - new cd images with keyboard layout configuration http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-07/msg00048.html - Pino Toscano: FIFO sockets with mknod (test passes now) http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-09/msg00053.html -- Pino Toscano added a size parameter to tmpfs for easier usage in scripts: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-09/msg00005.html -- Pino Toscano added procfs fixes http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-09/msg00004.html +- Pino Toscano added a size parameter to tmpfs for easier usage in scripts: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-09/msg00005.html and a [version suffix option](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-10/msg00009.html) for gnumach configure. +- Pino Toscano added patches for [procfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-09/msg00004.html), [ptrace](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-10/msg00035.html), [fsync on stdout](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-10/msg00046.html), [muntrace](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00033.html), [ulimit](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00034.html), [glibc](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00029.html) which among others improve POSIX conformance, making it easier to write programs which work on the Hurd and GNU/Linux. +- Cyril Roeland fixed a documentation typo [in ps](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-10/msg00032.html) and a missing linker flag [in procfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-10/msg00025.html). -Still to do: everything starting from october 2012 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-10/threads.html +- Samuel Thibault pushed the [pthread patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00088.html) from Vincente, Barry, Thomas, Richard and Samuel and others to the different upstream packages, finally enabling modern pthreads for the Hurd, which makes it possible to implement full Hurd bindings for languages which require pthreads, so for example [PyHurd](http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pyhurd/) can profit from the Hurd libraries instead of having to rely on low-level Mach bindings to implement Hurd features. +- Thomas Schwinge fixed [some errors](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00077.html) which caused a miscalculation of the size of medium sized disks reporting 15 heads instead of 16. +- Svante Signell [improved](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00062.html) the error handling in pflocal, +- Pino Toscano [implemented syncfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00046.html) which ensures that all data in the filesystem gets written to disk. +- Matthew Leach [fixed](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00037.html) a compilation error with older GCC versions due to duplicate type definition. + + +Still to do: everything starting from http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/threads.html This quarter [hurd hacker] [item] -- cgit v1.3.1 From b3435a3f4348f7959cae7c137f7cfd68fb16b37b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:36:08 +0200 Subject: qoth: gathered the news items for 2012-q3 and q4 --- contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'contributing') diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn index bcacae9e..b906f3f0 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn @@ -38,9 +38,13 @@ News items: - Samuel Thibault pushed the [pthread patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00088.html) from Vincente, Barry, Thomas, Richard and Samuel and others to the different upstream packages, finally enabling modern pthreads for the Hurd, which makes it possible to implement full Hurd bindings for languages which require pthreads, so for example [PyHurd](http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pyhurd/) can profit from the Hurd libraries instead of having to rely on low-level Mach bindings to implement Hurd features. - Thomas Schwinge fixed [some errors](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00077.html) which caused a miscalculation of the size of medium sized disks reporting 15 heads instead of 16. - Svante Signell [improved](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00062.html) the error handling in pflocal, -- Pino Toscano [implemented syncfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00046.html) which ensures that all data in the filesystem gets written to disk. +- Pino Toscano [implemented syncfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00046.html) which ensures that all data in the filesystem gets written to disk, as well as [statfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00005.html), which adds some additional statistics to procfs. - Matthew Leach [fixed](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00037.html) a compilation error with older GCC versions due to duplicate type definition. - +- Samuel Thibault [provided](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00052.html) new [installation CDs](http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/current) and a new [qemu image](http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/). +- Thomas Schwinge [debugged and fixed](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00044.html) a deadlock with child threads resulting from a regression due to earlier fixes. +- Cyril Roelandt shared a [patch series](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00018.html) to fix double mutex unlocking with pthreads. We will likely see more fixes like these, given that the whole threading interface changed. +- Cyril Roelandt fixed a [ps](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00012.html). +- Still to do: everything starting from http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/threads.html -- cgit v1.3.1 From 16e7cc4a13f2b47e649783ab142de4085f1ccce5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:39:48 +0200 Subject: qoth: todo: gather info from debian hurd --- contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'contributing') diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn index b906f3f0..39aa52ae 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ News items: - Cyril Roelandt fixed a [ps](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00012.html). - -Still to do: everything starting from http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/threads.html +Still to do: everything starting from http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/07/threads.html This quarter [hurd hacker] [item] -- cgit v1.3.1 From c34511711200d72b28b0ddeb70e3a2fe28f088dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:44:38 +0200 Subject: qoth polish. --- contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'contributing') diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn index 39aa52ae..96efacbc 100644 --- a/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn +++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn @@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ News items: - Samuel Thibault [provided](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00052.html) new [installation CDs](http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/current) and a new [qemu image](http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/). - Thomas Schwinge [debugged and fixed](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00044.html) a deadlock with child threads resulting from a regression due to earlier fixes. - Cyril Roelandt shared a [patch series](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00018.html) to fix double mutex unlocking with pthreads. We will likely see more fixes like these, given that the whole threading interface changed. -- Cyril Roelandt fixed a [ps](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00012.html). +- Cyril Roelandt fixed a [ps](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00012.html) bug. + - Still to do: everything starting from http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/07/threads.html -- cgit v1.3.1