Re: New Here at Hurd-Dev

[Anurag Ghosh]

Hello

Apologies. I have tried to use some of the translators, read some of the 
documents provided on the page. I was thinking that trying to write something 
would be a better way to learn. I will go through the presentations carefully.  

Thanks

Anurag Ghosh(xel_1792)
Sophomore Year, IIIT-H

----- Original Message -----
From: "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
To: "Anurag Ghosh" <anurag.ghosh@research.iiit.ac.in>
Cc: bug-hurd@gnu.org
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 3:00:38 AM
Subject: Re: New Here at Hurd-Dev

Please always keep the mailing list in Cc, so you optimize the chance of getting
a complete answer in a minimized time.  Otherwise, you run the risk of either
get a terse answer, or have to wait (possibly long) that I have time to provide
a lengthier answer (or simply that I come back from vacations...)

Anurag Ghosh, le Thu 26 Feb 2015 02:32:45 +0530, a écrit :
> Which one would be easier to delve into ? I have a slight experience with 
> locking primitives, writing linux kernel syscalls.

You may want to check out the slides of my fosdem presentation
https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/hurd/
which presents some of these small hacks.  The valgrind hack is actually
not small, as shown by last year's GSoC :)

> I was looking through the small hacks and I couldn't understand some,

Did you first get familiar with the system?  It is really important to
understand what translators are, before being able to understand most of
these small hacks.

Samuel