From 4b35c398ab01c2e5ecf49d9fccc44c215f850a0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 12:29:44 +0100 Subject: Integrate history.html and hurd-announcements.html, plus all Hurd flashes and announcements. --- hurd/history/hurd-flash3 | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+) create mode 100644 hurd/history/hurd-flash3 (limited to 'hurd/history/hurd-flash3') diff --git a/hurd/history/hurd-flash3 b/hurd/history/hurd-flash3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..19a5f371 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/history/hurd-flash3 @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +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. + -- cgit v1.2.3