From ed20a7ee50647c303f62224836f8a26244b17c88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 00:15:14 +0200 Subject: contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next -> news/2012-q3-q4 --- news/2012-q3-q4.mdwn | 140 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 140 insertions(+) create mode 100644 news/2012-q3-q4.mdwn (limited to 'news/2012-q3-q4.mdwn') diff --git a/news/2012-q3-q4.mdwn b/news/2012-q3-q4.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..029c1b23 --- /dev/null +++ b/news/2012-q3-q4.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,140 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 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]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta date="2013-05-14 22:22 UTC"]] + +Two quarters of the Hurd, Q3 and Q4 of 2012: *libpthread conversion*, +*installation CDs*, *hardware compatibility*, *porting*. +[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news +text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]""" +else=" +[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] + +[[!cut id="full_news" text=""" + +In November 2012, we finished the [libthreads (cthreads) to libpthread (POSIX +Threads) +conversion](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00088.html). +Converting the Hurd libraries to the [[pthread interfaces|libpthread]] allows +linking them together with other libraries that use this standard threading +interface themselves. This project +[once](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2002-10/msg00162.html) was +begun by Vicente Hernando Ara, and later continued by Barry deFreese, Thomas +DiModica, Thomas Schwinge, Samuel Thibault, Pino Toscano, and now brought to +completion by Richard Braun, who could not be scared by having to resolve the +last remaining tricky issues before the transition could be completed. + +Cyril Roelandt shared a [patch +series](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/threads.html#00018) +to fix double mutex unlocking problems. He found these using a simple script +for [Coccinelle](http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/), which is a [[static code analysis +tool|open_issues/code_analysis]]. We hope to see more such changes in the +future, and we're always interested in hearing people who have experience with +similar tools, for example to resolve other [[open_issues/locking_issues]]. + +Thomas Schwinge together with Richard Braun and Samuel Thibault [debugged and +fixed](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00044.html) a +deadlock related to signal delivery, resulting from a regression due to earlier +changes. + +Also 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/). +Additionally to using pthreads, these now offer keyboard layout configuration. + +In [[glibc]], +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 +support in [[hurd/translator/procfs]] for +[statfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00005.html). + +Thomas Schwinge improved the hardware compatibility of the Hurd by [identifying +and +backporting]](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00077.html) +some changes contained in Linux 2.0.40, which prevents data corruption due to a +miscalculation of the size of medium-sized disks reporting 15 heads instead of +16. +This fix was part of an effort to get Hurd running using a [solid-state +disk](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00000.html). +Samuel Thibault improved [network card +detection](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/07/msg00011.html) +on busses other than 0 and 2. + +Several people ported and fixed packages, further increasing the number of +[[hurd/running/Debian]] packages that work on the Hurd: *Svante Signell* ported +[mlocate-0.25](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/07/msg00015.html), +[gnat-gps](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/07/msg00011.html), +[libpst](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/08/msg00039.html), +[libetpan](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/08/msg00046.html), +[spl](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/09/msg00004.html), +[dovecot](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/09/msg00007.html), +[xplc](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/08/msg00054.html), +[parrot](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/08/msg00056.html), +[x86info](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/09/msg00008.html), +[atlas](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/09/msg00009.html), +[rrdtool](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/09/msg00011.html), +[gdb](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/09/msg00018.html), +[yodl](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/08/msg00030.html), and fixed +[ntpdate](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/12/msg00002.html) to work +again and +[improved](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-11/msg00062.html) +the error handling in pflocal. *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 GNU/Hurd and GNU/Linux. And he made the test pass for [FIFO +sockets](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-09/msg00053.html) with +mknod and +[added](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-09/msg00005.html) a +size parameter to [[hurd/translator/tmpfs]] and a [version suffix +option](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-10/msg00009.html) for +GNU Mach's configure script. *Cyril Roelandt* fixed a +[ps](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-12/msg00012.html) bug, 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). +*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. +*Ole Streicher* fixed a bug in the Makefile of ftools-fv which was +[exposed](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/10/msg00059.html) by testing +on Hurd. *Samuel Thibault* +[removed](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/12/msg00005.html) the +out-of-date floppy-warnings in the debian installer. + +So if you want to test if your favorite packages work on the Hurd and +contribute towards making the full GNU system usable for a wider range +of people, please [[get in contact|contact_us]] -- and maybe already +grab the [[source code|source_repositories]]. + +--- + +The **GNU Hurd** is the GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. It is a +collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file +systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are +implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux). [[More +detailed|hurd/documentation]]. + +**GNU Mach** is the microkernel upon which a GNU Hurd system is based. It +provides an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism that the Hurd uses to +define interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the +services a traditional operating system kernel provides. [[More +detailed|microkernel/mach/gnumach]]. + +"""]] -- cgit v1.2.3