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diff --git a/community.mdwn b/community.mdwn
index be1edb8f..25f66244 100644
--- a/community.mdwn
+++ b/community.mdwn
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free
-Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012
+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]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
-There is an expanding community of people developing and running test Debian
-GNU/Hurd machines.
+There is an expanding community of people developing and running GNU/Hurd
+systems.
 
 [[Communication]] -- How communication and coordination works within the group.
 
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ Further ways of getting in contact or getting information:
 
 [Advogato.org -- Hurd Project page](http://advogato.org/proj/HURD/)
 
+[Google+](https://plus.google.com/114942488385711891227)
+
 [[Media_Appearances]]
 
 ---
diff --git a/community/gsoc.mdwn b/community/gsoc.mdwn
index e22bda3d..6eece956 100644
--- a/community/gsoc.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 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
@@ -12,8 +12,10 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 [[!meta title="Google Summer of Code"]]
 
 We're in!  The GNU Hurd project is again participating in the [Google Summer of
-Code](http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2011) under the
-[GNU umbrella](http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/).
+Code](http://www.google-melange.com/) under the [GNU
+umbrella](http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/).
+
+<!--
 
 This year's *student application period* is over.  Thanks for sending in your
 applications!  We're now reviewing and discussing these, so please pay
@@ -52,24 +54,29 @@ to announce the number of slots that the whole GNU project gets, and we'll be
 discussing with our GNU peers about how to split these up among all the GNU
 subprojects.
 
+-->
+
 
 # Applying for a Task
 
+<!--
+
 Applications for 2011 are closed.
 
-We have a list of [[project_ideas]], and students are likewise encouraged to
-submit their own project proposals.
+-->
 
-We always ask students that want to apply for a task (in the course of the
-Google Summer of Code) to mind our distinct [[student_application_form]].
+We have a list of [[project_ideas]], and students are likewise encouraged to
+submit their own project proposals.  Please follow our
+[[student_application_form]].
 
-Then, don't forget to visit
-<http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/gnu>, and push the big
+Then, don't forget to visit <http://www.google-melange.com/>, and press the
 button for submitting your proposal.
 
-Please read up about [[contributing]] in general;
-and feel free to ask any questions you might have at one of our [[regular_IRC_meetings|IRC#regular_meetings]].
-Generally it's a good idea to [[contact_us|communication]] when starting to work on some project.
+Please read up about [[contributing]] in general, and please ask any questions
+you might have, on the [[mailing_lists]], or on [[IRC]], for example at one of
+our [[regular_IRC_meetings|IRC#regular_meetings]].  Generally it's a good idea
+to [[get in contact with us|contact_us]] as soon as you're beginning to spend
+time on a project.
 
 
 ## Outside of the GSoC Scope
@@ -83,12 +90,8 @@ if you aren't a student anyway.
 # History
 
 In 2006 and [[2007]], we participated in GSoC under the umbrella of the GNU
-project,
-getting one slot each year.
-
-In the following year, we successfully participated on our own, not only as a
-suborganization of the GNU
-project.  Read about our five students' success on the [[2008]] page.
-
-The next two year, we participated under the GNU umbrella with one slot in
-[[2009]], and three in [[2010]].
+project, getting one slot each year.  In the following year, we successfully
+participated on our own, instead of as a suborganization of the GNU project.
+Read about our five students' success on the [[2008]] page.  The next two year,
+we participated under the GNU umbrella with one slot in [[2009]], three in
+[[2010]], and one again in [[2011]].
diff --git a/community/gsoc/2010.mdwn b/community/gsoc/2010.mdwn
index 4388636b..d09e26b6 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/2010.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/2010.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 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
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 In 2010 we have again been participating in the Google Summer of Code
 under the GNU umbrella, with three slots:
 
-  * *[[Jeremie Koenig|jkoenig]]*, mentored by *[[Samuel
+  * *[[Jérémie Koenig|jkoenig]]*, mentored by *[[Samuel
     Thibault|samuelthibault]]*, has been working on adapting the Debian Installer to
     [produce working Debian GNU/Hurd installation
     images](http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/debian/t127230758239)
diff --git a/community/gsoc/2011.mdwn b/community/gsoc/2011.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ba10a031
--- /dev/null
+++ b/community/gsoc/2011.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 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 title="Google Summer of Code 2011"]]
+
+In 2011 we have again been participating in the Google Summer of Code
+under the GNU umbrella, with one slot:
+
+  * [[Jérémie Koenig|jkoenig]], mentored by [[Thomas Schwinge|tschwinge]] and
+    Richard Braun, has been working on the project [*Java on Hurd (and vice
+    versa)*](http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/jkoenig/27001).
+    ([[Details|user/jkoenig/java]].)
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn
index 398f1426..5d42b5c6 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn
@@ -74,13 +74,8 @@ After all, the purpose of GSoC is to introduce you to free software development
 before the end of the application process, with our help -- contact us, and we
 will assist you as well as we can.
 
-See also the list of **[Hurd-related X.org project
-ideas](http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Hurd_Porting)**.
-
-<!-- These X.org tasks are also listed on
-<http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas>, which is the page used by
-X.org for referring to their GSoC projects.  Probabaly we should get rid of one
-of these pages (to avoid duplication).  -->
+See also the list of [Hurd-related X.Org project
+ideas](http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Hurd_Porting).
 
 <!-- Olaf, wouldn't it make sense to put the following tasks next to each
 other: language_bindings, gnat, gccgo, perl_python.  -->
@@ -99,7 +94,6 @@ other: language_bindings, gnat, gccgo, perl_python.  -->
 [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnumach_cleanup" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]]
 [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/xmlfs" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]]
 [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]]
-[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/tmpfs" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]]
 [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/lexical_dot-dot" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]]
 [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/secure_chroot" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]]
 [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]]
@@ -118,3 +112,4 @@ other: language_bindings, gnat, gccgo, perl_python.  -->
 [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/valgrind" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]]
 [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]]
 [[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/dtrace" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]]
+[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/libdiskfs_locking" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]]
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/debian_installer.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/debian_installer.mdwn
index 43682e8b..37dcc72d 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/debian_installer.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/debian_installer.mdwn
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ is included in the section entitled
 
 [[!meta title="Port the Debian Installer to the Hurd"]]
 
+[!] Jérémie Koenig has been working on this as a [[Google Summer of Code
+2010|2010]] project.
+
+---
+
 The primary means of distributing the Hurd is through Debian GNU/Hurd.
 However, the installation CDs presently use an ancient, non-native installer.
 The situation could be much improved by making sure that the newer *Debian
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/file_locking.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/file_locking.mdwn
index 811027c3..206d4d7d 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/file_locking.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/file_locking.mdwn
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2012 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]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 [[!meta title="Fix and Complete File Locking Support"]]
 
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ which needs a complete implementation.
 This task will require digging into parts of the code to understand how file
 locking works on the Hurd. Only general programming skills are required.
 
-A preliminary patch is available on http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?332
+A preliminary patch is [[!GNU_Savannah_patch 332 desc="available"]].
 
 Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi)
 
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gccgo.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gccgo.mdwn
index 26f5a91b..54b20754 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gccgo.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gccgo.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011, 2012 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
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 [[!meta title="Porting Google Go (GCC: gccgo)"]]
 
-<!-- See also open_issues/gccgo.  -->
-
 The goal of this project is to make the [Google Go programming
 language](http://golang.org/) available on GNU/Hurd in its [[GCC]] *gccgo*
 implementation.
@@ -23,7 +21,14 @@ Apart from a solid knowledge of the [[POSIX]] API, working knowledge of the
 Google Go programming language is a must.  Some Hurd knowledge will have to be
 acquired while working on the project.
 
+Designing and implementing [[language_bindings]] is a follow-up project.
+
 Possible mentors: Ian Lance Taylor: gccgo bits, [[Thomas Schwinge
 (tschwinge)|tschwinge]]: Hurd bits.
 
 Exercise: Fix one of the problems preventing *gccgo* from working on the Hurd.
+
+---
+
+[[Open Issue page|open_issues/gccgo]].  [Entry in the GCC
+wiki](http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode#gccgo_hurd).
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn
index f78c1f64..fef26353 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2011, 2012 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
@@ -10,8 +11,6 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 [[!meta title="Porting GNAT (GCC)"]]
 
-<!-- See also open_issues/gnat.  -->
-
 The GNU Ada Translator (GNAT) isn't available for the Hurd so far. There are
 also a number of other Debian packages depending on GNAT, and thus not
 buildable on the Hurd.
@@ -21,7 +20,14 @@ requires implementing some explicitly system-specific stuff in GNAT, and maybe
 fixing a few other problems. Good knowledge of Ada is a must; some Hurd
 knowledge will have to be acquired while working on the project.
 
-Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi), [[Thomas Schwinge
+Designing and implementing [[language_bindings]] is a follow-up project.
+
+Possible mentors: [[Samuel Thibault (youpi)|samuelthibault]], [[Thomas Schwinge
 (tschwinge)|tschwinge]].
 
 Exercise: Fix one of the problems preventing GNAT from working on the Hurd.
+
+---
+
+[[Open Issue page|open_issues/gnat]].  [Entry in the GCC
+wiki](http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode#gnat_hurd).
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn
index 6b36c50d..d9a426be 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 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
@@ -41,8 +41,11 @@ These more specialized bindings could hook in at some of the lower level
 library interfaces ([[hurd/libports]], [[hurd/glibc]], etc.); use the
 [[microkernel/mach/MIG]]-provided [[microkernel/mach/RPC]] stubs directly; or
 even create native stubs directly from the interface definitions. The
-[[lisp_bindings_created_by_Flavio_Cruz|flaviocruz]] in last year's GSoC mostly
-use the latter approach, and can serve as a good example.
+[[lisp_bindings_created_by_Flavio_Cruz|flaviocruz]] as his [[2008 GSoC
+project|2008]] mostly use the latter approach, and can serve as a good example.
+In his [[2011 GSoC project|2011]], Jérémie Koenig designed and began
+implementing an object-oriented interface; see his [[Java status
+page|user/jkoenig/java]] for details.
 
 There is another possible reason for preferring lower-level bindings:
 Presently, the Hurd server libraries use the cthreads threading library, which
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/namespace-based_translator_selection.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/namespace-based_translator_selection.mdwn
index 67e3fc28..f668b6f2 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/namespace-based_translator_selection.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/namespace-based_translator_selection.mdwn
@@ -1,15 +1,22 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2012 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]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 [[!meta title="Namespace-based Translator Selection"]]
 
+[!] [[Sergiu Ivanov|scolobb]] has been working *voluntarily* on this task an
+inofficial GSoC 2008 participant.  Not all the desired functionality is in
+place yet, though.
+
+---
+
 The main idea behind the Hurd is to make (almost) all system functionality
 user-modifiable ([[extensible_system|extensibility]]).  This includes a
 user-modifiable filesystem: the whole filesystem is implemented decentrally, by
@@ -75,8 +82,3 @@ Possible mentors: Olaf Buddenhagen (antrik)
 
 Exercise: Try to make some modification to the existing unionfs and/or firmlink
 translators. (More specific suggestions welcome... :-) )
-
-*Status*: Sergiu Ivanov has been working *voluntarily* on
-[[namespace-based_translator_selection|scolobb]], as an inofficial GSoC 2008
-participant! Not all the desired functionality is in place yet; work is
-ongoing.
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/nfs.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/nfs.mdwn
index e7c18324..d4980279 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/nfs.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/nfs.mdwn
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2012 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]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 [[!meta title="Improved NFS Implementation"]]
 
@@ -31,6 +32,9 @@ has been done for a former GSoC application -- it might give you some pointers.
 But don't take any of the statements made there for granted -- check the facts
 yourself!
 
+A bigger subtask is the [[libnetfs: `io_map`|open_issues/libnetfs_io_map]]
+issue.
+
 This task, [[!GNU_Savannah_task 5497]], has no special prerequisites besides general programming skills, and
 an interest in file systems and network protocols.
 
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn
index 0434ab9c..e6b484af 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation,
 Inc."]]
 
 [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
@@ -6,11 +6,20 @@ 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]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 [[!meta title="procfs"]]
 
+[!] Madhusudan.C.S has implemented a new, fully functional
+[[procfs|madhusudancs]] as a [[GSoC 2008 project|2008]].
+
+[!] This was not the end of the story: [[jkoenig's
+`procfs`|hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig]] is yet another re-written and
+improved version.
+
+---
+
 Although there is no standard (POSIX or other) for the layout of the `/proc`
 pseudo-filesystem, it turned out a very useful facility in GNU/Linux and other
 systems, and many tools concerned with process management use it. (`ps`, `top`,
@@ -41,12 +50,3 @@ existing Linux `/proc` interface -- no design considerations necessary.
 Possible mentors: Olaf Buddenhagen (antrik)
 
 Exercise: Add or fix one piece in the existing procfs translator.
-
-*Status*: Madhusudan.C.S has implemented a new, fully functional [[procfs|madhusudancs]] for
-GSoC 2008. He is still working on some outstanding issues.
-
----
-
-Note that this was not the end of the story: [[jkoenig's
-`procfs`|hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig]] is yet another re-written and
-improved version.
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tmpfs.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tmpfs.mdwn
index 63b4effe..c38c6da8 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tmpfs.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tmpfs.mdwn
@@ -1,15 +1,21 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2012 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]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 [[!meta title="Fix tmpfs"]]
 
+[!] [[Maksym_Planeta]] has been making good progress here; status is tracked at
+[[here|hurd/translator/tmpfs/discussion]].
+
+---
+
 In some situations it is desirable to have a file system that is not backed by
 actual disk storage, but only by anonymous memory, i.e. lives in the RAM (and
 possibly swap space).
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr.mdwn
index 7178d826..8ec4c42e 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr.mdwn
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ Completing this project will require digging into some parts of the Hurd, but
 it should be quite doable without previous Hurd experience. Some experience
 with xattrs might help a bit, but shouldn't be really necessary either.
 
-Some previous work on xattr support is available in [[!GNU_Savannah_patch
-5126]], and might serve as a starting point.
+Some previous work on xattr support is [[available|open_issues/xattr]], and
+might serve as a starting point.
 
 Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi)
 
diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn
index 54fa788d..920fdba8 100644
--- a/contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn
+++ b/contributing/web_pages/news.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation,
 Inc."]]
 
 [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
@@ -9,20 +9,20 @@ 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 title="""How to prepare and publish a "Month of the Hurd" for the last
-month"""]]
+[[!meta title="""How to prepare and publish a "Quarter of the Hurd" for the last
+quarter"""]]
 
-We prepare a *Month of the Hurd* in the file [[moth_next]].  The idea is
+We prepare a *Quarter of the Hurd* in the file [[qoth_next]].  The idea is
 to record to-be-published changes in that file at they time they arise, and
-then publish them en bloc at the end of the month.  There are instructions for
-[[writing_the_moth]].
+then publish them en bloc at the end of the quarter.  There are instructions for
+[[writing_the_qoth]].
 
-  * At the end of the month: prepare for publishing the MotH, then send the raw
+  * At the end of the quarter: prepare for publishing the QotH, then send the raw
     Markdown text to the mailing list, asking for feedback.
 
   * ..., and publish.
 
-        $ git mv contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn news/YYYY-MM.mdwn
+        $ git mv contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn news/YYYY-MM.mdwn
 
     Edit the news entry's *meta date* value to the timestamp when the news
     entry is published.  We have to set that one manually, as otherwise the
@@ -31,6 +31,6 @@ then publish them en bloc at the end of the month.  There are instructions for
     it's correct to update that one upon further modifications of the news
     entries.
 
-        $ git cp contributing/web_pages/news/skeleton.mdwn contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn
-        $ git commit -m 'MotH YYYY-MM.'
+        $ git cp contributing/web_pages/news/skeleton.mdwn contributing/web_pages/news/qoth_next.mdwn
+        $ git commit -m 'QotH YYYY-MM.'
         $ git push origin master
diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn
index 603643a6..7f3eeae0 100644
--- a/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn
+++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/moth_next.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011, 2012 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
@@ -13,9 +13,7 @@ Will be set by tschwinge when publishing.
 [[!meta date="YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC"]]
 -->
 
-<!-- This is just a skeleton.  Use it to create a new MotH.  -->
-
-A month of the Hurd: *TODO*, *TODO*, and *TODO*.
+A quarter of the Hurd: *Nix-based builds*, and *bounty: slab allocator merged*.
 [[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
 text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
 else="
@@ -23,115 +21,124 @@ else="
 
 [[!cut id="full_news" text="""
 
-<!--basic structure of a MotH entry. Adapt, reduce and add points as needed. At the end, try to make the text flow as a unified whole.-->
-
-This month [hurd hacker]  [item]
-
-<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00079.html> -- Bouju
-Alain submitted a patch to suport cpuinfo in the /proc interface
-
-Richard Braun committed the last patch to mplanetas branch of the slab allocator
-work, for integration. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-12/msg00046.html
-
-
-
-
-IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-11-14:
-
-Features:
-
-    (22:30:39) braunr: there shouldn't be any noticeable difference with the
-      master branch
-    (22:30:46) braunr: a bit less fragmentation
-    (22:30:55) braunr: more memory can be reclaimed by the VM system
-    (22:31:02) braunr: there are debugging features
-    (22:31:06) braunr: it's SMP ready
-    (22:31:15) braunr: and overall cleaner than the zone allocator
-    (22:31:31) braunr: although a bit slower on the free path (because of
-      what's performed to reduce fragmentation)
-    (22:32:42) braunr: but even "slower" here is completely negligible
-
-**New porter box: exodar***
-
-I/O Path Documentation [[hurd/io_path/]]
-
-Debugging: 
-
-- Pino Toscano: recvfrom() with null http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00161.html
-- Maksym Planeta: tmpfs http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00125.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00118.html 
-- Samuel Thibault: libtool http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00073.html mknod http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00070.html  Fix POSIX 2008 visibility http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-12/msg00004.html sudo setresuid http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=645285
-- Jim Meyering: gnu tools with user id 4294967295 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00094.html
-- Paul Eggert:  Add error-checking on GNU http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00130.html
-
-Porting: 
-
-- Sergio Lopez: webkitgtk+: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00025.html
-- Svante Signell: pax: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00105.html abiword http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00035.html syslog-ng http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00060.html ecl http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00058.html fakeroot http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00022.html daemon http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00025.html  procps http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00046.html
-- Samuel Thibault: packagekit: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00071.html evolution http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00070.html emacs23 http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00018.html gcc-4.7 http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00065.html iceweasel (firefox) http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00080.html 
-
-Samuel Thibault: /dev/urandom as native translator: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00092.html
-
-Samuel Thibault: Christmas gift: New CD set: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00095.html
-
-Samuel Thibault identified three easy porting cases: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00095.html: 
-
-- undefined reference to dl_foo: add -ldl for building
-- undefined reference to `main': missing gnu* case in the linking part of configure.ac or .in (pd-* packages are already being handled by their maintainer)
-- undefined reference to clock_gettime or crypt: add -lrt or -lcrypt
-
-Richard Brauh added Exodar, a new porter box, which is faster and reliable: exodar.debian.net
-
-Bouju Alain: Procfs with cpuinfo http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00084.html
-
-Social network sites for GNU Hurd: 
-
-- Google+: https://plus.google.com/114942488385711891227#114942488385711891227/posts
-- identi.ca: http://identi.ca/group/hurd
-
-Ludovic Courtès: 
-
-- Continuously-built Nix-based QEMU image: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00047.html
-- modern Autoconf initialization: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00068.html
-- Allow /hurd/init to be a symlink: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00032.html
-- The Hurd now builds with Savannah’s libc (2.14+): http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00025.html
-
-Pino Toscano and Thomas Schwinge: pthread improvements: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00027.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00020.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00013.html
-
-Sergio Lopez documented his work on Better Memory Management and memfs: http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/user/Sergio_Lopez/
-
-Guillem Jover: First step for porting to x64: Fix Mach's int vs long discrepancy: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00053.html
-
-Svante Signell: e2fsprogs quota fixes: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00015.html
-
-As a sidenote, we would like to share a story about real-life debugging with the Hurd:
-
-    <youpi> yay GNU/Hurd
-    <youpi> I have added i_translator check in e2fsck, it was missing
-    <youpi> I had a volume that was keeping making ext2fs crash
-    <youpi> with a reproductible scenario
-    <youpi> could easily work out it was i_translator, then add a check to e2fsck, run it, which indeed fixed, them, and voilà, ext2fs was working again
-    <youpi> all that on the same machine with *no* system reboot
+This quarter, Ludovic Courtès contributed a [continuously-built Nix-based QEMU
+image](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00042.html),
+raising the count of GNU/Hurd distributions to three: [[Debian
+GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]], [[hurd/running/Arch_Hurd]], and now
+[[hurd/running/NixOS]].  His build is still pretty basic, but a step into the
+right direction: [[!wikipedia "continuous integration"]] is a great feature for
+automated testing.
+
+Samuel Thibault followed suit with a [new Debian GNU/Hurd disk
+set](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00095.html) as a christmas
+gift, and
+[identified](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00095.html) three
+easy porting cases with solutions:
+
+  * undefined reference to `dl_*`: add `-ldl` for building
+  * undefined reference to `main`: missing `gnu*` case in the linking part of
+    `configure.ac` or `.in`
+  * undefined reference to `clock_gettime` or `crypt`: add `-lrt` or `-lcrypt`
+
+These should help all those who want to help [[porting_packages|hurd/porting]].
+
+Maksym Planeta and Richard Braun [finished
+integration](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-12/msg00046.html)
+of the slab allocator.  From [[IRC]], freenode, #hurd, 2011-11-14:
+
+    <braunr> there shouldn't be any noticeable difference [...]
+    <braunr> a bit less fragmentation  
+    <braunr> more memory can be reclaimed by the VM system  
+    <braunr> there are debugging features  
+    <braunr> it's SMP ready  
+    <braunr> and overall cleaner than the zone allocator  
+    <braunr> although a bit slower on the free path (because of
+      what's performed to reduce fragmentation)  
+    <braunr> but even "slower" here is completely negligible
+
+This also
+[concludes](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00140.html)
+our first [[FOSS Factory|donate#FOSS_Factory]] project -- one [[tag/bounty]]
+has been redeemed, more are waiting.
+
+Sergio Lopez documented his work on
+[[better_memory_management_and_memfs|Sergio_Lopez]], making it easier for other
+hackers to join in working on that topic.
+
+Our hackers also used the quarter for porting a good number of packages and
+fixing bugs.  After fixing quirks in the Hurd's memory management system,
+Sergio Lopez [reported success building
+webkitgtk+](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00025.html), whose
+build stresses the available memory resources on a 32-bit architecture to a
+large extent.  Svante Signell was busy, too:
+[pax](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00105.html),
+[abiword](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00035.html),
+[syslog-ng](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00060.html),
+[ecl](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00058.html),
+[fakeroot](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00022.html),
+[daemon](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00025.html), and
+[procps](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00046.html),
+[e2fsprogs' quota](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00015.html).
+Samuel Thibault handled
+[packagekit](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00071.html),
+[evolution](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00070.html),
+[emacs23](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00018.html),
+[gcc-4.7](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00065.html), and
+[iceweasel
+(firefox)](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/12/msg00080.html).  Bouju
+Alain [submitted a
+patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00079.html) to
+support `/proc/cpuinfo`.  Ludovic Courtès contributed a patch to [allow for
+`/hurd/init` being
+symlink](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00032.html),
+made the Hurd [build with glibc
+2.14+](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00025.html), and
+[worked with the GNU coreutils
+team](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00067.html) on a
+few issues.  Pino Toscano improved [`recvfrom` with `NULL` address
+ports](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00161.html).
+Maksym Planeta continued working on
+[tmpfs](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00118.html).
+Samuel Thibault turned `/dev/random` and `/dev/urandom` into [native
+translators](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/11/msg00092.html),
+modernized [libtool's
+configuration](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00073.html),
+[mknod's cleanup in error
+cases](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00070.html),
+[fixed POSIX 2008
+visibility](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-12/msg00004.html),
+and fixed an [[!debbug 645285 desc="issue in `setresuid` that broke `sudo`"]].
+[Pino
+Toscano](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00013.html) and
+[Thomas
+Schwinge](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2011-11/msg00020.html)
+improved key handling in libpthread.  Guillem Jover [fixed Mach's `int`
+vs. `long`
+discrepancy](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2011/10/msg00053.html), which
+takes us the first step towards [[porting the system to
+x86_64|open_issues/64-bit_port]].
+
+<!--
+
+Now, as a final note, we want to share a story about real-life debugging with the
+Hurd; IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-03-02:
+
+    <youpi> yay GNU/Hurd  
+    <youpi> I have added i_translator check in e2fsck, it was missing  
+    <youpi> I had a volume that was keeping making ext2fs crash  
+    <youpi> with a reproductible scenario  
+    <youpi> could easily work out it was i_translator, then add a
+      check to e2fsck, run it, which indeed fixed, them, and voilà,
+      ext2fs was working again
+    <youpi> all that on the same machine with *no* system reboot  
     <youpi> just ext2fs restart :)
 
-<!--bug hurd and debian hurd done-->
-
-------
-
-Add stuff here? (This is already in q3)
-
-Also …
-
-[our hackers] …
-
-Mainly thanks to …
-
-Additionally …
-
-And …
+-->
 
-So if you want to [reason for contibuting to the Hurd],
-please [[get in contact|contact_us]] -- and maybe already grab the [[source
-code|source_repositories]].
+If you want to join us in our journey to realize more of the promises of the
+architecture of the Hurd, please [[get in contact|contact_us]] -- and maybe
+already grab the [[source code|source_repositories]] and have fun hacking on
+Free Software!
 
 ---
 
@@ -147,6 +154,4 @@ define interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the
 services a traditional operating system kernel provides.  [[More
 detailed|microkernel/mach/gnumach]].
 
-<!--see [[contributing/web_pages/news/writing_the_moth]] for additional information on writing the MotH.-->
-
 """]]
diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/skeleton.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/skeleton.mdwn
index 17227476..d63b4445 100644
--- a/contributing/web_pages/news/skeleton.mdwn
+++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/skeleton.mdwn
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ Will be set by tschwinge when publishing.
 [[!meta date="YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC"]]
 -->
 
-<!-- This is just a skeleton.  Use it to create a new MotH.  -->
+<!-- This is just a skeleton.  Use it to create a new QotH.  -->
 
-A month of the Hurd: *TODO*, *TODO*, and *TODO*.
+A quarter of the Hurd: *TODO*, *TODO*, and *TODO*.
 [[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news
 text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]"""
 else="
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ else="
 
 [[!cut id="full_news" text="""
 
-<!--basic structure of a MotH entry. Adapt, reduce and add points as needed. At the end, try to make the text flow as a unified whole.-->
+<!--basic structure of a QotH entry. Adapt, reduce and add points as needed. At the end, try to make the text flow as a unified whole.-->
 
-This month [hurd hacker]  [item]
+This quarter [hurd hacker]  [item]
 
 Also …
 
@@ -55,6 +55,6 @@ define interfaces for implementing in a distributed multi-server fashion the
 services a traditional operating system kernel provides.  [[More
 detailed|microkernel/mach/gnumach]].
 
-<!--see [[contributing/web_pages/news/writing_the_moth]] for additional information on writing the MotH.-->
+<!--see [[contributing/web_pages/news/writing_the_qoth]] for additional information on writing the QotH.-->
 
 """]]
diff --git a/contributing/web_pages/news/writing_the_moth.mdwn b/contributing/web_pages/news/writing_the_qoth.mdwn
index 82a25088..6aea5f4d 100644
--- a/contributing/web_pages/news/writing_the_moth.mdwn
+++ b/contributing/web_pages/news/writing_the_qoth.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2012 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
@@ -8,7 +9,7 @@ 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]]."]]"""]]
 
-# Short Guide for Writing the MotH 
+# Short Guide for Writing the QotH
 
 
 ## Individual News Items
diff --git a/hurd/faq/slash_usr_symlink/discussion.mdwn b/hurd/faq/slash_usr_symlink/discussion.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..219e14e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hurd/faq/slash_usr_symlink/discussion.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag open_issue_documentation]]
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-01
+
+    <marcusb> I remember the time when we had a /usr symlink.  Now fedora 17
+      will move / to /usr and have /foo symlinks.  :)
+    <marcusb> braunr:
+      http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge
+    <marcusb> braunr: fedora and others are merging /bin, /sbin and some other
+      into /usr
+    <marcusb> braunr: back in 1998 we tried for two years or so to have /usr ->
+      ..  in Debian GNU/Hurd, but eventually we gave up on it, because it broke
+      some stuff
+    <gnu_srs> marcusb: Hi, which one is better (in your opinion): / or /usr?
+    <marcusb> gnu_srs: fedora says that using /usr allows better separation of
+      distribution files and machine-local files
+    <braunr> marcusb: won't it break remote /usr ?
+    <marcusb> so you can atomically mount the OS files to /usr
+    <marcusb> gnu_srs: but in the end, it's a wash
+    <marcusb> personally, I think every package should get its own directory
+    <braunr> marcusb: what PATH then ?
+    <marcusb> braunr: well, I guess you'd want to assemble a union filesystem
+      for a POSIX shell 
+    <braunr> marcusb: i don't see what you mean :/
+    <braunr> ah this comes from Lennart Poettering
+    <marcusb> braunr: check out for example how http://nixos.org/ does it
+    <manuel> braunr: something like, union /package1/bin /package2/bin
+      /package3/bin for /bin, /package1/lib /package2/lib /package3/lib for
+      /lib, etc. I guess
+    <braunr> manuel: would that scale well ?
+    <marcusb> the idea that there is only one correct binary for each program
+      with the name foo is noble, but a complete illusion that hides the
+      complexity of the actual configuration management task
+    <braunr> marcusb: right
diff --git a/hurd/libstore/part.mdwn b/hurd/libstore/part.mdwn
index 5d727ad8..5260d05d 100644
--- a/hurd/libstore/part.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/libstore/part.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2012 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
@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ Neal:
 
 > The motivation was to be able to evict the partitioning logic from Mach.
 
----
 
-TODO: How to use, etc.
+# Booting
+
+A similar problem is described in
+[[community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot]], and needs to be implemented.
+
+
+# TODO
+
+How to use, etc.
diff --git a/hurd/porting/guidelines.mdwn b/hurd/porting/guidelines.mdwn
index e47d4408..2618cd90 100644
--- a/hurd/porting/guidelines.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/porting/guidelines.mdwn
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ then be found.
 
 ## <a name="SA_SIGINFO"> `SA_SIGINFO` </a>
 
-Implemented by Jeremie Koenig, pending upload in Debian eglibc 2.13-19.
+Implemented by Jérémie Koenig, pending upload in Debian eglibc 2.13-19.
 
 ## <a name="SA_NOCLDWAIT"> `SA_NOCLDWAIT` </a>
 
diff --git a/hurd/running/nixos.mdwn b/hurd/running/nixos.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2fa44ede
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hurd/running/nixos.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 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 title="NixOS"]]
+
+<http://www.nixos.org/>
+
+  * <http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/hurd-master>
+
+      * <http://hydra.nixos.org/job/gnu/hurd-master/qemu_image/latest/download>
+
+  * <http://hydra.nixos.org/job/gnu/hurd-master/qemu_test>
diff --git a/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn b/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn
index 0866d0ac..ee1574b7 100644
--- a/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free
-Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
+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
@@ -20,9 +20,7 @@ You can use the following images to give the GNU/Hurd a try.
 
 [[!inline pages=hurd/running/debian/qemu_image raw=yes feeds=no]]
 
-## NixOS
-
-http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/hurd-master
+## [[NixOS]]
 
 ## Unofficial Images
 
diff --git a/hurd/translator.mdwn b/hurd/translator.mdwn
index 3527267f..d504b41f 100644
--- a/hurd/translator.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/translator.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software
 Foundation, Inc."]]
 
 [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ available.
 Read about translator [[short-circuiting]].
 
 The [[concept|concepts]] of translators creates its own problems, too:
-[[open_issues/translators_set_up_by_untrusted_users]].
+[[open_issues/translators_set_up_by_untrusted_users]], and
+[[open_issues/trust_the_behavior_of_translators]].
 
 
 # Existing Translators
diff --git a/hurd/translator/devfs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/devfs.mdwn
index 27df23aa..8784e998 100644
--- a/hurd/translator/devfs.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/translator/devfs.mdwn
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2012 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]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 `devfs` is a translator sitting on `/dev` and providing what is to be provided
 in there in a dynamic fashion -- as compared to static passive translator
@@ -18,3 +18,22 @@ settings as they're used now.
 
 If applicable, it has to be taken care that all code concerning the page-in
 path is resident at all times.
+
+---
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-01-29
+
+    <pinotree> what would be an hurdish way to achieve something like the
+      various system (udev, devfs, devd, etc) for populating devices files
+      automatically according to the found system devices?
+    <pinotree> (not that i plan anything about that, just curious)
+    <youpi> it's not really a stupid question at all :)
+    <youpi> I guess translators in /dev
+    <youpi> such as a blockfs on /dev/block
+    <antrik> pinotree: in an ideal world (userspace drivers and all), the
+      device nodes will be exported by the drivers themselfs; and the drivers
+      will be launched by the bus respective bus driver
+    <antrik> an interesting aspect is what to do if we want a traditional flat
+      /dev directory with unique device names... probably need some
+      unionfs-like translator that collects the individual driver nodes in an
+      intelligent manner
diff --git a/hurd/translator/nfs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/nfs.mdwn
index 384144dc..bf24370a 100644
--- a/hurd/translator/nfs.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/translator/nfs.mdwn
@@ -13,4 +13,6 @@ Translator acting as a NFS client.
 
 # See Also
 
+  * [[libnetfs: `io_map`|open_issues/libnetfs_io_map]] issue
+
   * [[open_issues/libnfs]]
diff --git a/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn b/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn
index 135b4a88..339fab50 100644
--- a/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion.mdwn
@@ -213,3 +213,8 @@ IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-07-25
 
 Needed by glibc's `pldd` tool (commit
 11988f8f9656042c3dfd9002ac85dff33173b9bd).
+
+
+# `/proc/self/exe`
+
+[[!message-id "alpine.LFD.2.02.1110111111260.2016@akari"]]
diff --git a/hurd/translator/tmpfs/discussion.mdwn b/hurd/translator/tmpfs/discussion.mdwn
index 0409f046..1d441c7d 100644
--- a/hurd/translator/tmpfs/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/translator/tmpfs/discussion.mdwn
@@ -283,3 +283,96 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
     <mcsim> what kind of log do you mean?
     <antrik> vmstat 1 I mean
     <mcsim> ah...
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-01
+
+    <mcsim> I run fsx with this command:  fsx -N3000 foo/bar -S4
+      -l$((1024*1024*8)). And after 70 commands it breaks.
+    <mcsim> The strangeness is at address 0xc000 there is text, which was
+      printed in fsx with vfprintf
+    <mcsim> I've lost log. Wait a bit, while I generate new
+    <jkoenig_> mcsim, what's fsx / where can I find it ?
+    <mcsim> fsx is filesystem exersiser
+    <mcsim> http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/fsx/
+    <jkoenig_> ok thanks
+    <mcsim> i use it to test tmpfs
+    <mcsim> here is fsx that compiles on linux: http://paste.debian.net/154390/
+      and Makefile for it: http://paste.debian.net/154392/ 
+    <jkoenig_> mcsim, hmm, I get a failure with ext2fs too, is it expected?
+    <mcsim> yes
+    <mcsim> i'll show you logs with tmpfs. They slightly differ
+    <mcsim> here: http://paste.debian.net/154399/
+    <mcsim> pre last operation is truncate
+    <mcsim> and last is read
+    <mcsim> during pre-last (or last) starting from address 0xa000, every
+      0x1000 bytes appears text
+    <mcsim> skipping zero size read
+    <mcsim> skipping zero size read
+    <mcsim> truncating to largest ever: 0x705f4b
+    <mcsim> signal 2
+    <mcsim> testcalls = 38
+    <mcsim> this text is printed by fsx, by function prt
+    <mcsim> I've mistaken: this text appears even from every beginning 
+    <mcsim> I know that this text appears exactly at this moment, because I
+      added check of the whole file after every step. And this error appeared
+      only after last truncation.
+    <mcsim> I think that the problem is in defpager (I'm fixing it), but I
+      don't understand where defpager could get this text
+    <jkoenig_> wow I get java code and debconf templates
+    <mcsim> So, my question is: is it possible for defpager to get somehow this
+      text?
+    <jkoenig_> possibly recycled, non-zeroed pages?
+    <mcsim> hmmm... probably you're right
+    <jkoenig_> 0x1000 bytes is consistent with the page size
+    <mcsim> Should I clean these pages in tmpfs?
+    <mcsim> or in defpager?
+    <mcsim> What is proper way?
+    <jkoenig_> mcsim, I'd say defpager should do it, to avoid leaking
+      information, I'm not sure though.
+    <jkoenig_> maybe tmpfs should also not assume the pages have been blanked
+      out.
+    <mcsim> if i do it in both, it could have big influence on performance.
+    <mcsim> i'll do it only in defpager so far.
+    <mcsim> jkoenig_: Thank you a lot
+    <jkoenig_> mcsim, no problem.
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-08
+
+    <tschwinge> mcsim: You pushed another branch with cleaned-up patches?
+    <mcsim> yes.
+    <tschwinge> mcsim: Anyway, any data from your report that we could be
+      interested in?  (Though it's not in English.)
+    <mcsim> It's completely in ukrainian an and mostly describes some aspects
+      of hurd's work.
+    <tschwinge> mcsim: OK.  So you ran out of time to do the benchmarking,
+      etc.?
+    <tschwinge> Comparing tmpfs to ext2fs with RAM backend, etc., I mean.
+    <mcsim> tschwinge: I made benchmarking and it turned out that tmpfs up to 6
+      times faster than ext2fs
+    <mcsim> tschwinge: is it possible to have a review of work, I've already
+      done, even if parallel writing doesn't work?
+    <tschwinge> mcsim: Do you need this for university or just a general review
+      for inclusion in the Git master branch?
+    <mcsim> general review
+    <tschwinge> Will need to find someone who feels competent to do that...
+    <mcsim> the branch that should be checked is tmpfs-final
+    <pinotree> cool, i guess you tested also special types of files like
+      sockets and pipes? (they are used in eg /run, /var/run or similar)
+    <mcsim> Oh. I accidentally created this branch. It is my private
+      branch. I'll delete it now and merge everything to mplaneta/tmpfs/master
+    <mcsim> pinotree: Completely forgot about them :( I'll do it by all means
+    <pinotree> mcsim: no worries :)
+    <mcsim> tschwinge: Ready. The right branch is mplaneta/tmpfs/master
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-03-07
+
+    <pinotree> did you test it with sockets and pipes?
+    <mcsim> pinotree: pipes work and sockets seems to work too (I've created
+      new pfinet device for them and pinged it).
+    <pinotree> try with simple C apps
+    <mcsim> Anyway all these are just translators, so there shouldn't be any
+      problems.
+    <mcsim> pinotree: works
diff --git a/mailing_lists.mdwn b/mailing_lists.mdwn
index ff4dab9f..33f131d5 100644
--- a/mailing_lists.mdwn
+++ b/mailing_lists.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+2011, 2012 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
@@ -46,6 +46,13 @@ mailing lists.
 Technical discussion and bug reports; main development list. If you want to
 [[*contribute*|contributing]], please meet us here.
 
+<a name="commit-hurd"></a>
+## commit-hurd
+
+<http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/commit-hurd>
+
+Commit notices for the GNU Hurd, and other automated status updates.
+
 <a name="hurd-devel"></a>
 ## hurd-devel
 
diff --git a/mailing_lists/commit-hurd.mdwn b/mailing_lists/commit-hurd.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..08fcaff4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mailing_lists/commit-hurd.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 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 redir=mailing_lists#commit-hurd]]
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/memory_object/discussion.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/memory_object/discussion.mdwn
index a2a1514b..907f859a 100644
--- a/microkernel/mach/memory_object/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/mach/memory_object/discussion.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011, 2012 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
@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 [[!tag open_issue_documentation open_issue_gnumach]]
 
-IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-08-05:
+[[!toc]]
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-08-05
 
     < neal> braunr: For instance, memory objects are great as they allow you to
       specify the mapping policy in user space.
@@ -23,7 +26,8 @@ IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-08-05:
     < braunr> the kernel eviction policy :)
     < neal> that's an implementation detail
 
-IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-09-05:
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-09-05
 
     <braunr> mach isn't a true modern microkernel, it handles a lot of
       resources, such as high level virtual memory and cpu time
@@ -65,3 +69,6 @@ IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-09-05:
       pages are going to be flushed by themselves
 
 [[open_issues/resource_management_problems]].
+
+
+# [[open_issues/memory_object_model_vs_block-level_cache]]
diff --git a/microkernel/mach/pmap.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/pmap.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6910bfd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/microkernel/mach/pmap.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag open_issue_documentation open_issue_gnumach]]
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-01
+
+    <sekon> on Hurd what is the difference between kernel memory object and
+      pmap module ??
+    <sekon> pmap is heap/libraries table for each thread while kernel memory
+      object refers to arbitary blobs of data ??
+    <braunr> sekon: pmap is the low level memory mapping module
+    <braunr> i.e. it programs the mmu
+    <braunr> and these aren't hurd-specific, they are mach modules
+    <sekon> braunr: so kernel memonry objects consists of a bunch of pmaps ??
+    <braunr> sekon: memory objects can be various things, be specific please
+    <braunr> (they're certainly not a bunch of pmaps though, no)
+    <braunr> there is one pmap per vm_map, and there is one vm_map per task
+    <braunr> and there is no need for double question marks, is ther ??
+    <sekon> lol then is kernel memory object , please excuse the metaphor
+      something like a base class for pmap 
+    <braunr> i don't know what a "kernel memory object" is, be specific please,
+      again
+    <sekon> braunr:
+      http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs5204/fall05-gback/presentations/MachOS_Rajesh.ppt 
+    <sekon> goto page titled External Memory Management (EMM) on page 15 
+    <sekon> Kernel memory object shows up 
+    <braunr> you know there are other formats for this document
+    <sekon> nope .. i did not know that 
+    <sekon> in page 17 pmamp shows up 
+    <braunr> "the problems of external memory management" ?
+    <sekon> braunr: the paper i am also reading is called x15mach_thesis 
+    <braunr> ah, that's mine
+    * sekon bows 
+    <sekon> :) 
+    <braunr> ok i see page 17
+    <sekon> so please good sir explain the relationship between kernel memory
+      object and pmap 
+    <sekon> (if any) 
+    <sekon> braunr: there is no mention of kernel  memory object 
+    <braunr> again, i don't see any reference or definition of "kernel memory
+      object"
+    <sekon> but your paper says 
+    <sekon> that when page faults occur 
+    <sekon> the kernel contact the manager for a kernel reference object 
+    <sekon> *memory 
+    <braunr> where ?
+    <sekon> in section 2.1.3 (unless i read it wrong) 
+    <sekon> no just a sec 
+    <sekon> 2.1.5 
+    <braunr> i never used the expression "kernel memory object" there :p
+    <braunr> anyway, you're referring simple to memory objects as seen by
+      userspace pagers
+    <braunr> a memory object is a data container
+    <braunr> usually, it's a file
+    <braunr> but it can be anything
+    <braunr> the pager is the task that provides its content and implements the
+      object methods
+    <braunr> as for the relation between them and the pmap module, it's a
+      distant one
+    <braunr> i'll explain it with an example
+    <braunr> page fault -> request content of memory object at a given offset
+      with given length from pager -> ask pmap to establish the mapping in the
+      mmu
+    <sekon> braunr: thank you ver much 
+    <sekon> *very 
diff --git a/microkernel/viengoos/documentation.mdwn b/microkernel/viengoos/documentation.mdwn
index 52ff7a48..edcc79a7 100644
--- a/microkernel/viengoos/documentation.mdwn
+++ b/microkernel/viengoos/documentation.mdwn
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2012 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]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 The most up-to-date documentation is in the source code itself, see in
 particular the header files in the hurd directory.
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ version of that is available [[here|reference-guide.pdf]].  It is
 not, however, automatically regenerated, and thus may not be up to
 date.
 
-Academic Papers:
+
+# Academic Papers
 
   * [Viengoos: A Framework for Stakeholder-Directed Resource
     Allocation](http://walfield.org/papers/2009-walfield-viengoos-a-framework-for-stakeholder-directed-resource-allocation.pdf).
@@ -54,3 +55,8 @@ Academic Papers:
     argue that only a small static number of scheduling policies are
     needed in practice and advocate hierarchical policy specification and
     central realization.
+
+
+# Miscellaneous
+
+  * [[IRC_2012-02-23]]
diff --git a/microkernel/viengoos/documentation/irc_2012-02-23.mdwn b/microkernel/viengoos/documentation/irc_2012-02-23.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a3229be9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/microkernel/viengoos/documentation/irc_2012-02-23.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 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 title="IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-23"]]
+
+[[!tag open_issue_documentation open_issue_viengoos]]
+
+    <braunr> neal: i've read a bit about current modern microkernel based
+      systems, and i'm wondering
+    <braunr> neal: can a capability be used for both request and replies, or
+      does messaging need something similar to reply ports ?
+    <neal> braunr: you want a reply port
+    <neal> think about a file server:
+    <neal> the file server publishes a capability to access something
+    <neal> and multiple entities use it
+    <neal> if you wanted just bidirectional caps
+    <braunr> that's the idea i had in mind, i just wondered if it was actually
+      still the case in practice
+    <neal> you'd need to create a new capability every time you delegated the
+      cap
+    <braunr> yes
+    <braunr> thanks
+    <braunr> what about send once rights ?
+    <neal> also, if you send on a cap and then start waiting on it you could
+      get your own reply :)
+    <neal> you can get around send-once rights by using a counter
+    <braunr> no i mean, is their behaviour still needed/useful ?
+    <neal> the counter is kernel implemented
+    <neal> yes
+    <neal> as an optimization
+    <braunr> so they're just a special case of capability
+    <neal> yes
+    <braunr> not a special capability type of their own
+    <neal> but they eliminate the constant create/destroy sequence
+    <braunr> (even if it was already the case at the implementation level in
+      mach, they were named separately which could confuse people)
+    <braunr> hm
+    <braunr> actually, send once rights were used for important notifications
+      such as dead port notifications
+    <braunr> is this still handled at the kernel level in modern ukernels ?
+    <neal> in viengoos, this is called the version field
+    <neal> see chapter 2
+    <neal>
+      http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/microkernel/viengoos/documentation/reference-guide.pdf
+    <braunr> neal: btw, congratulations for viengoos, it really is a very
+      interesting project: )
+    <neal> thanks
+    <braunr> i don't see the point of rewriting a mach clone after reading
+      about it eh
+    <neal> I would definately do the messenger concept again
+    <neal> but I'd not do persistence
+    <braunr> i don't fully understand how messengers deal with blocking
+    <neal> did you read chapter 4?
+    <braunr> i read all of it but didn't understand everything :)
+    <braunr> it's quite abstract and i didn't make time to read some of the
+      source code
+    <neal> If you have specific questions, I can try to help
+    <braunr> i'll read those chapter again and formulate my questions after
+    <neal> I may have to read them as well :)
+    <braunr> i don't understand how you manage to separate IPC from threading
+      actually
+    <braunr> are messengers queues ?
+    <neal> messengers are super-buffers
+    <neal> they contain a reference to a thread object
+    <neal> to send a message, I use a messenger
+    <neal> I put the data in a buffer
+    <neal> and then I attach the messenger to the target messenger
+    <antrik> braunr: my stance is that we should try to incorporate the ideas
+      from Viengoos into Mach in an evolutionary process...
+    <neal> this causes an activation to be sent to the target messenger's
+      thread object
+    <braunr> neal: which activation ?
+    <neal> an activation is like a CPU interrupt
+    <braunr> neal: is it "allocated" at that moment, or taken from the sending
+      thread ?
+    <braunr> (i'm not sure my question really makes sense to you :/)
+    <antrik> braunr: not sure what you are asking exactly; but the basic idea
+      is that the receiving process preallocates message buffers
+    <braunr> antrik: maybe, i'm not sure
+    <antrik> when someone sends a message, it's stored in one of these buffers,
+      and the process gets a scheduler activation, so it can decide what to do
+      with it
+    <neal> antrik is right
+    <neal> the traget messenger designates a memory buffer
+    <braunr> i'm wondering about the details of this activation
+    <braunr> is it similar to thread migration ?
+    <neal> just before the activation, the data is copied to the messenger's
+      buffer
+    <neal> now someone needs to be notified
+    <neal> (that a message arrived)
+    <neal> that someone is the thread designated in the target messenger's
+      thread field
+    <neal> this is done by an activation
+    <neal> an activation is just an upcall
+    <neal> a thread is forced to a particular IP
+    <neal> an activation isn't a "what" it's a "how"
+    <neal> I never understood thread migration
+    <neal> as it's not really about threads
+    <neal> nor it is about migration
+    <antrik> neal: what happens if another message comes in before the
+      activation handling tread is done with the previous one?...
+    <neal> the messenger is enqueued on the thread object
+    <neal> it is delivered when the thread is in normal mode
+    <neal> part of delivering an activation is putting the thread is activation
+      mode
+    <neal> when in activation mode, it can't receive any activations
+    <braunr> i see
+    <braunr> but then, when a thread receives an activation, does it handle
+      several queued messengers at once (not to loose events/messages) ?
+    <neal> (unless it does a blocking receive on a particular messenger, which
+      is necessary to support memory allocation in activated mode)
+    <neal> it handles one at a time
+    <braunr> ah right
+    <neal> it can't lose events
+    <braunr> activations are sent per messengers/events
+    <neal> well, it can
+    <neal> but it is possible to prevent this
+    <braunr> neal: also, is message passing completely atomic ?
+    <neal> I'm not sure what you mean
+    <neal> which part
+    <braunr> well, all parts of a message :)
+    <braunr> in mach, a message can contain several parts
+    <braunr> data, rights, passing one of them may fail
+    <braunr> only the header is atomically processed
+    <neal> it's not atomic in the sense that a thread can observe the data copy
+    <braunr> that's not what i meant
+    <braunr> is a message completely transferred or not at all in case of
+      failure ?
+    <neal> it may be partially transferred
+    <braunr> or can it be partially transferred
+    <braunr> ok
+    <neal> for instance, if the target thread doesn't provide a memory buffer
+    <neal> then the data can't be copied
+    <neal> I don't recall off hand how I dealt with bad addresses
+    <neal> may be it is not possible
+    <neal> I don't remember
+    <neal> sorry
+    <braunr> but if i read the message structure correctly, there can be one
+      data block, and several capability addresses in a single message, right ?
+    <neal> yes
+    <braunr> ok
+    <braunr> have you considered passing only one object (either data or
+      capability) per message ?
+    <braunr> or is it too inefficient ?
+    <neal> you at least need a reply port
+    <neal> s/port/messenger/
+    <braunr> yes but can't it be passed separately ?
+    <neal> then you have server state
+    <neal> ik
+    <braunr> hm yes
+    <braunr> thanks for your answers: )
+    <neal> no problem
diff --git a/news/2010-04-30.mdwn b/news/2010-04-30.mdwn
index 254ceb99..da4c0183 100644
--- a/news/2010-04-30.mdwn
+++ b/news/2010-04-30.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2012 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
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]
 > On to the Google Summer of Code 2010: we got three students working on the
 > Hurd this year:
 
->   * *Jeremie Koenig*, mentored by *Samuel Thibault*, will be working on
+>   * *Jérémie Koenig*, mentored by *Samuel Thibault*, will be working on
 >     adapting the Debian Installer to [produce working Debian GNU/Hurd
 >     installation
 >     images](http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/student_project/show/google/gsoc2010/debian/t127230758239)
diff --git a/open_issues/boehm_gc.mdwn b/open_issues/boehm_gc.mdwn
index 19bd1b21..e7f849f2 100644
--- a/open_issues/boehm_gc.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/boehm_gc.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2012 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
@@ -281,3 +281,43 @@ It has last been run and compared on 2010-11-10, based on CVS HEAD sources from
         Git branches (2010-12-15: last change 2009-09).
 
       * <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/#users>
+
+
+## IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2012-02-05
+
+[[!tag open_issue_porting]]
+
+    <pinotree> youpi: i think i found out the possible cause of the ecl and
+      mono issuess
+    <pinotree> -s
+    <youpi> oh
+    <pinotree> basically, we don't have the realtime signals (so no
+      SIGRTMIN/SIGRTMAX defined), hence things use either SIGUSR1 or
+      SIGUSR2... which are used in libgc to resp. stop/resume threads when
+      "collecting"
+    <pinotree> i just patched ecl to use SIGINFO instead of SIGUSR1 (used when
+      no SIGRTMIN+2 is available), and it seems going on for a while
+    <youpi> uh, why would SIGINFO work better than SIGUSR1?
+    <pinotree> it was a test, i tried the first "not common" signal i saw
+    <pinotree> my test was, use any signal different than USR1/2
+    <youpi> ah, sorry, I hadn't understood
+    <youpi> you mean there's a conflict between ecl and mono using SIGUSR1, as
+      well as libgc?
+    <pinotree> yes
+    <pinotree> for example, in ecl sources see src/c/unixint.d,
+      install_process_interrupt_handler()
+    <youpi> SIGINFO seems a sane choice
+    <youpi> SIGPWR could have been a better choice if it was available :)
+    <pinotree> i would have chose an "unassigned" number, say SIGLOST (the
+      bigger one) + 10, but it would be greater than _NSIG (and thus discarded)
+    <youpi> not a good idea indeed
+    <pinotree> it seems that linux, beside the range for rt signals, has some
+      "free space"
+    <pinotree> i'll start now another ecl build, from scratch this time, with
+      s/SIGUSR1/SIGINFO/ (making sure ctags won't bother), and if it works i'll
+      update svante's bug
+
+    <pinotree> mmap(...PROT_NONE...) failed
+    <pinotree> hmm...
+    <pinotree> apparently enabling MMAP_ANON in mono's libgc copy was a good
+      step, let's see
diff --git a/open_issues/bpf.mdwn b/open_issues/bpf.mdwn
index 98b50430..2a8c897a 100644
--- a/open_issues/bpf.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/bpf.mdwn
@@ -440,3 +440,125 @@ This is a collection of resources concerning *Berkeley Packet Filter*s.
     <braunr> hm, there is a "snoop" source type, using raw sockets
     <braunr> too far from the packet source, but i'll try it anyway
     <braunr> hm wrong, snoop was the solaris packet filter fyi
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-01-28
+
+    <braunr> nice, i have tcpdump working :)
+    <braunr> let's see if it's as simple with wireshark
+    <pinotree> \o/
+    <braunr> pinotree: it was actually very simple
+    <pinotree> heh, POV ;)
+    <braunr> yep, wireshark works too
+    <braunr> promiscuous mode is harder to test :/
+    <braunr> but that's a start
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-01-30
+
+    <braunr> ok so next step: get tcpreplay working
+    <antrik> braunr: BTW, when you checked the status of the kernel BPF code,
+      did you take zhengda's enhancements/fixes into account?...
+    <braunr> no
+    <braunr> when did i check it ?
+    <antrik> braunr: well, you said the kernel BPF code has serious
+      shortcomings. did you take zhengda's changes into account?
+    <braunr> antrik: ah, when i mention the issues, i considered the userspace
+      translator only
+    <braunr> antrik: and stuff like non blocking io, exporting a selectable
+      file descriptor
+    <braunr> antrik: deb http://ftp.sceen.net/debian-hurd experimental/
+    <braunr> antrik: this is my easy to use repository with a patched
+      libpcap0.8
+    <braunr> and a small and unoptimized pcap-hurd.c module
+    <braunr> it doesn't use devopen yet
+    <braunr> i thought it would be better to have packet filtering working
+      first as a debian patch, then get the new translator+final patch upstream
+    <jkoenig> braunr, tcpdump works great here (awesome!). I'm probably using
+      exactly the same setup and "hardware" as you do, though :-P
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-01-31
+
+    <braunr> antrik: i tend to think we need a bpf translator, or anything
+      between the kernel and libpcap to provide selectable file descriptors
+    <braunr> jkoenig: do you happen to know how mach_msg (as called in a
+      hello.c file without special macros or options) deals with signals ?
+    <braunr> i mean, is it wrapped by the libc in a version that sets errno ?
+    <jkoenig> braunr: no idea.
+    <pinotree> braunr: what's up with it? (not that i have an idea about your
+      actual question, just curious)
+    <braunr> pinotree: i'm improving signal handling in my pcap-hurd module
+    <braunr> i guess checking for MACH_RCV_INTERRUPTED will dio
+    <braunr> -INFO is correctly handled :)
+    <braunr> ok new patch seems fine
+    <antrik> braunr: selectable file descriptors?
+    <braunr> antrik: see pcap_fileno() for example
+    <braunr> it returns a file descriptor matching the underlying object
+      (usually a socket) that can be multiplexed in a select/poll call
+    <braunr> obviously a mach port alone can't do the job
+    <braunr> i've upgraded the libpcap0.8 package with improved signal handling
+      for tests
+    <antrik> braunr: no idea what you are talking about :-(
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-01
+
+    <braunr> antrik: you do know about select/poll
+    <braunr> antrik: you know they work with multiple selectable/pollable file
+      descriptors
+    <braunr> on most unix systems, packet capture sources are socket
+      descriptors
+    <braunr> they're selectable/pollable
+    <antrik> braunr: what are packet capture sources?
+    <braunr> antrik: objects that provide applications with packets :)
+    <braunr> antrik: a PF_PACKET socket on Linux for example, or a Mach device,
+      or a BPF file descriptor on BSD
+    <antrik> for a single network device? or all of them?
+    <antrik> AIUI the userspace BPF implementation in libpcap opens this
+      device, waits for packets, and if any arrive, decides depending on the
+      rules whether to pass them to the main program?
+    <braunr> antrik: that's it, but it's not the point
+    <braunr> antrik: the point is that, if programs need to include packet
+      sources in select/poll calls, they need file descriptors
+    <braunr> without a translator, i can't provide that
+    <braunr> so we either decide to stick with the libpcap patch only, and keep
+      this limitation, or we write a translator that enables this feature
+    <pinotree> braunr: are the two options exclusive?
+    <braunr> pinotree: unless we implement a complete bpf translator like i did
+      years ago, we'll need a patch in libpcap
+    <braunr> pinotree: the problem with my early translator implementation is
+      that it's buggy :(
+    <braunr> pinotree: and it's also slower, as packets are small enough to be
+      passed through raw copies
+    <antrik> braunr: I'm not sure what you mean when talking about "programs
+      including packet sources". programs only interact with packet sources
+      through libpcap, right?
+    <antrik> braunr: or are you saying that programs somehow include file
+      descriptors for packet sources (how do they obtain them?) in their main
+      loop, and explicitly pass control to libpcap once something arrives on
+      the respecitive descriptors?
+    <braunr> antrik: that's the idea, yes
+    <antrik> braunr: what is the idea?
+    <braunr> 20:38 < antrik> braunr: or are you saying that programs somehow
+      include file descriptors for packet sources (how do they obtain them?) in
+      their main loop, and explicitly pass control to libpcap once something
+      arrives on the respecitive descriptors?
+    <antrik> braunr: you didn't answer my question though :-)
+    <antrik> braunr: how do programs obtain these FDs?
+    <braunr> antrik: using pcap_fileno() for example
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-02
+
+    <antrik> braunr: oh right, you already mentioned that one...
+    <antrik> braunr: so you want some entity that exposes the device as
+      something more POSIXy, so it can be used in standard FS calls, unlike the
+      Mach devices used for pfinet
+    <antrik> this is probably a good sentiment in general... but I'm not in
+      favour of a special solution only for BPF. rather I'd take this as an
+      indication that we probably should expose network interfaces as something
+      file-like in general after all, and adapt pfinet, eth-multiplexer, and
+      DDE accordingly
+    <braunr> antrik: i agree
+    <braunr> antrik: eth-multiplexer would be the right place
diff --git a/open_issues/dde.mdwn b/open_issues/dde.mdwn
index e2cff94f..b0b38a2a 100644
--- a/open_issues/dde.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/dde.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2012 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
@@ -13,3 +14,363 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 [[General Information|/dde]].
 
 Still waiting for interface finalization and proper integration.
+
+[[!toc]]
+
+
+# Disk Drivers
+
+Not yet supported.
+
+The plan is to use [[libstore_parted]] for accessing partitions.
+
+
+## Booting
+
+A similar problem is described in
+[[community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot]], and needs to be implemented.
+
+
+# Upstream Status
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-08
+
+At the microkernel davroom at [[community/meetings/FOSDEM_2012]]:
+
+    <antrik> there was quite some talk about DDE. I learnt that there are newer
+      versions in Genode and in Minix (as opposed to the DROPS one we are
+      using)
+    <antrik> but apparently none of the guys involved is interested in creating
+      a proper upstream project with central repository and communication
+      channels :-(
+    <antrik> the original DDE creator was also there, but said he isn't working
+      on it anymore
+    <tschwinge> OK, and the other two projects basically have their own forks.
+    <tschwinge> Or are they actively cooperating?
+    <tschwinge> (If you know about it.)
+    <antrik> well, Genode is also part of the Dresden L4 group; but apart from
+      that, I'd rather call it a fork...
+    <antrik> hm... actually, I'm not sure anymore whether the guy I talked to
+      was from Genode or Nova...
+    <antrik> (both from the Dresdem L4 group)
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-19
+
+    <youpi> antrik: do we know exactly which DDE version Zheng Da took as a
+      base ?
+    <youpi> (so as to be able to merge new changes easily)
+    <antrik> youpi: not sure... but from what I gathered at FOSDEM, the version
+      he based on (from DROPS) is not really actively developed right now; if
+      we want to go for newer versions, we probably have to look at other
+      projects (like Genode or Nova or Minix)
+    <youpi> there's no central project for dde ?
+    <youpi> that sucks
+    <antrik> no... and nobody seemed interested in having one :-(
+    <youpi> pff
+    <antrik> which makes me seriously question the original decision to build
+      on DDE...
+    <braunr> ..
+    <antrik> if we have to basically maintain it ourselfs anyways, we could
+      just as well have gone with custom glue
+    <youpi> well, the advantage of DDE is that it already exists now
+    <antrik> on the positive side, one of the projcets (not sure which)
+      apparently have both USB and SATA working with some variant of DDE
+
+
+# IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2012-02-15
+
+    <pinotree> i have no idea how the dde system works
+    <youpi> gnumach patch to provide access to physical memory and interrupts
+    <youpi> then userland accesses i/o ports by hand to drive things
+    <youpi> but  that assumes that no kernel driver is interfering
+    <youpi> so one has to disable kernel drivers
+    <pinotree> how are dde drivers used? can they be loaded on their own
+      automatically, or you have to settrans yourself to setup a device?
+    <youpi> there's no autoloader for now
+    <youpi> we'd need a bus arbitrer that'd do autoprobing
+    <pinotree> i see
+    <pinotree> (you see i'm not really that low level, so pardon the flood of
+      posssibly-noobish questions ;) )
+    <youpi> I haven't set it up yet, but IIRC you need to specify which driver
+      to be used
+    <youpi> well, I mostly have the same questions actually :)
+    <youpi> I just have some guesswork here :)
+    <pinotree> i wonder whether the following could be feasible:
+    <youpi> I'm wondering how we'll manage to make it work in d-i
+    <pinotree> a) you create a package which would b-d on linux-source, build a
+      selection of (network only for now) drivers and install them in
+      /hurd/dde/
+    <youpi> probably through a choice at the boot menu
+    <youpi> I wouldn't dare depending on linux-source
+    <youpi> dde is usually not up-to-date
+    <pinotree> b) add a small utility over the actual fsys_settrans() which
+      would pick the driver from /hurd/dde/
+    <pinotree> ... so you could do `set-dde-driver b43 <device>` (or something
+      like that)
+    <youpi> we can provide something like b) yes
+    <youpi> although documenting the settrans should be fine enough ;)
+    <pinotree> the a) would help/ease with the fact that you need to compile on
+      your own the drivers
+    <pinotree> otherwise we would need to create a new linux-dde-sources-X.Y.Z
+      only with the sources of the drivers we want from linux X.Y.Z
+    <pinotree> (or hurd-dde-linux-X.Y.Z)
+    <CIA-4> samuel.thibault * raccdec3 gnumach/debian/ (changelog
+      patches/70_dde.patch patches/series): 
+    <CIA-4> Add DDE experimental support
+    <CIA-4> * debian/patches/70_dde.patch: Add experimental support for irq
+      passing and
+    <CIA-4> physical memory allocation for DDE. Also adds nonetdev boot
+      parameter to
+    <CIA-4> disable network device drivers.
+    <youpi> ok, boots fine with the additional nonetdev option
+    <youpi> now I need to try that dde hurd branch :)
+    <CIA-4> samuel.thibault * rf8b9426 gnumach/debian/patches/70_dde.patch: Add
+      experimental.defs to gnuamch-dev
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-19
+
+    * youpi got dde almost working
+    <youpi> it's able to send packets, but apparently not receive them
+    <youpi> (e1000)
+    <youpi> ok, rtl8139 works
+    <youpi> antrik: the wiki instructions are correct
+    <youpi> with e1000 I haven't investigated
+    <antrik> (Archhurd guys also reported problems with e1000 IIRC... the one I
+      built a while back works fine though on my T40p with real e1000 NIC)
+    <antrik> maybe I should try with current versions... something might got
+      broken by later changes :-(
+    <youpi> at least testing could tell the changeset which breaks it
+    <youpi> Mmm, it's very odd
+    <youpi> with the debian package, pfinet's call to device_set_filter returns
+      D_INVALID_OPERATION
+    <youpi> and indeed devnode.c returns that
+    <youpi> ah but it's libmachdev which is supposed to answer here
+    <antrik> youpi: so, regarding the failing device_set_filter... I guess you
+      are using some wrong combination of gnumach and pfinet
+    <youpi> no it's actually that my pfinet was not using bpf
+    <youpi> I've now fixed it
+    <antrik> the DDE drivers rely on zhengda's modified pfinet, which uses
+      devnode, but also switched to using proper BPF filters. so you also need
+      his BPF additions/fixes in gnumach
+    <antrik> OK
+    <youpi> that's the latter
+    <youpi> I had already fixed the devnode part
+    <youpi> but hadn't seen that the filter was different
+    <antrik> err... did I say gnumach? that of course doesn't come into play
+      here
+    <antrik> so yes, you just need a pfinet using BPF
+    <youpi> libmachdev does ;)
+    <antrik> I'm just using pfinet from zhengda's DDE branch... I think devnode
+      and BPF are the only modifications
+    <youpi> there's also a libpcap modification in the incubator
+    <youpi> probably for tcpdump etc.
+    <antrik> libpcap is used by the modified pfinet to compile the filter rule
+    <youpi> why does pfinet need to compile the rule ?
+    <youpi> it's libbpf which is used in the dde driver
+    <antrik> it doesn't strictly need to... but I guess zhengda considered it
+      more elegant to put the source rule in pfinet on compile it live, rather
+      than the compiled blob
+    <antrik> I probably discussed this with him myself a few years back... but
+      my memory on this is rather hazy ;-)
+    <antrik> err... and compile it live
+    <youpi> ah, right, it's only used when asking pfinet to change its filter
+    <youpi> but it does not need it for the default filter
+    <youpi> which is hardcoded
+    <antrik> I see
+    <antrik> when would pfinet change its filter?
+    * youpi now completely converting his hurd box to debian packages with dde
+        support
+    <youpi> on SIOCSIFADDR apparently
+    <youpi> to set "arp or (ip host %s)",
+    <antrik> well, that sounds like the default filter...
+    <youpi> the default filter does not choose an IP
+    <antrik> oh, right... pfinet has to readjust the filter when setting the IP
+    <youpi> arg we lack support for kernel options for gnumach in update-grub
+    <antrik> again, I have a vague recollection of discussing this
+    * youpi crosses fingers
+    <youpi> yay, works
+    <antrik> so we *do* need libpcap in pfinet to set proper rules... though I
+      guess it can also work with a static catchall rule (like it did before
+      zhengda's changes), only less efficient
+    <youpi> well in the past we were already catching everything anyway, so at
+      least it's not a regression :)
+    <antrik> right
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-20
+
+    <youpi> I was a bit wary of including the ton of dde headers in hurd-dev
+    <youpi> maybe adding another package for that
+    <youpi> but that would have delayed introducing the dde binaries
+    <youpi> probably we can do that for next upload
+    <pinotree> i can try to work on it, if is feasible (ie if the dde drivers
+      can currently be built from outside the hurd source tree)
+    <youpi> it should be, it's a matter of pointing its makefile to a place
+      where the make scripts and include headers are
+    <youpi> (and the libraries)
+    <pinotree> ok
+    <antrik> youpi: you mean DDEKit headers?
+    <antrik> pinotree: actually it doesn't matter where the dde-ified Linux
+      drivers are built -- libdde_linux26 and the actual drivers use a
+      completetly different build system anyways
+    <antrik> in fact we concluded at some point that they should live in a
+      separate repository -- but that change never happened
+    <antrik> only the base stuff (ddekit, libmachdev etc.) belong in the Hurd
+      source tree
+    <youpi> antrik: yes
+    <youpi> antrik: err, not really completely different
+    <youpi> the actual drivers' Makefile include the libdde_linux26 mk files
+    <youpi> the build itself is separate, though
+    <antrik> youpi: yes, I mean both libdde_linux26 and the drivers use a build
+      system that is completely distinct from the Hurd one
+    <youpi> ah, yes
+    <youpi> libdde_linux26 should however be shipped in the system
+    <antrik> ideally libdde_linux26 and all the drivers should be built in one
+      go I'd say...
+    <youpi> it should be easily feasible to also have a separate driver too
+    <youpi> e.g. to quickly try a 2.6 driver
+    <antrik> youpi: I'm not sure about that. it's not even dynamically linked
+      IIRC?...
+    <youpi> with scripts to build it
+    <youpi> it's not
+    <youpi> but that doesn't mean it can't be separate
+    <youpi> .a files are usually shipped in -dev packages
+    <antrik> youpi: ideally we should try to come with a build system that
+      reuses the original Linux makefile snippets to build all the drivers
+      automatically without any manual per-driver work
+    <youpi> there's usually no modification of the drivers themselves?
+    <youpi> but yeah
+    <youpi> "ideally", when somebody takes the time to do it
+    <antrik> unfortunately, it's necessary to include one particular
+      Hurd/DDE-specific header file in each driver :-(
+    <youpi> can't it be done through gcc's -include option?
+    <antrik> zhengda didn't find a way to avoid this... though I still hope
+      that it must be possible somehow
+    <antrik> I think the problem is that it has to be included *after* the
+      other Linux headers. don't remember the details though
+    <youpi> uh
+    <youpi> well, a good script can add a  line after the last occurrence of
+      #include
+    <antrik> yeah... rather hacky, but might work
+    <youpi> even with a bit of grep, tail, cut, and sed it should work :)
+    <antrik> note that this is Hurd-specific; the L4 guys didn't need that
+    <youpi> what is it?
+    <antrik> don't remember off-hand
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-22
+
+    <youpi> antrik: AIUI, it should be possible to include all network drivers
+      in just one binary?
+    <youpi> that'd permit to use it in d-i
+    <youpi> and completely replace the mach drivers
+    <youpi> we just need to make sure to include at least what the mach drivers
+      cover
+    <youpi> (all DDE network drivers, I mean)
+    <youpi> of course that doesn't hinder from people to carefully separate
+      drivers in several binaries if they wish
+    <youpi> antrik: it does link at least, I'll give a try later
+    <youpi> yes it works!
+    <youpi> that looks like a plan
+    <youpi> throw all network drivers in a /hurd/dde_net
+    <youpi> settrans it on /dev/dde_net, and settrans devnode on /dev/eth[0-9]
+    <youpi> I'm also uploading a version of hurd which includes headers &
+      libraries, so you just need a make in dde_{e100,e1000,etc,net}
+    <youpi> (uploading it with the dde driver itself :) )
+    <youpi> btw, a nice thing is that we don't really care that all drivers are
+      stuffed into a single binary, since it's a normal process only the useful
+      pages are mapped and actually take memory :)
+    <Tekk_> is that really a nice thing though? compared to other systems I
+      mean
+    <Tekk_> I know on linux it only loads the modules I need, for example. It's
+      definitely a step up for hurd though :D
+    <youpi> that's actually precisely what I mean
+    <youpi> you don't need to load only the modules you need
+    <youpi> you just load them all
+    <youpi> and paging eliminates automatically what's not useful
+    <youpi> even parts of the driver that your device will not need
+    <Tekk_> ooh
+    <Tekk_> awesome
+    <youpi> (actually, it's not even loaded, but the pci tables of the drivers
+      are loaded, then paged out)
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-24
+
+    <youpi> antrik_: about the #include <ddekit/timer.h>, I see the issue, it's
+      about jiffies
+    <youpi> it wouldn't be a very good thing to have a jiffies variable which
+      we'd have to update 100times per second
+    <youpi> so ZhengDa preferred to make jiffies a macro which calls a function
+      which reads the mapped time
+    <youpi> however, that break any use of the work "jiffies", e.g. structure
+      members & such
+    <youpi> actually it's not only after headers that the #include has to be
+      done, but after any code what uses the word "jiffies" for something else
+      than the variable
+    <youpi> pb is: it has to be done *before* any code that uses the word
+      "jiffies" for the variable, e.g. inline functions in headers
+    <youpi> in l4dde, there's already the jiffies variable so it's not a
+      problem
+
+
+# IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2012-02-27
+
+    <tschwinge> I plan to do some light performance testing w.r.t. DDE
+      Ethernet.  That is DDE vs. Mach, etc.
+    <youpi> that'd be good, indeed
+    <youpi> I'm getting 4MiB/s with dde
+    <youpi> I don't remember with mach
+    <tschwinge> Yes.  It just shouldn't regress too much.
+    <tschwinge> Aha, OK.
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-27
+
+    <youpi> tschwinge: nttcp tells me ~80Mbps for mach-rtl8139, ~72Mbps for
+      dde-rtl8139, ~72Mbps for dde-e1000
+    <youpi> civodul: ↑ btw
+    <ArneBab> youpi: so the dde network device is not much slower than the
+      kernel-one?
+    <civodul> youpi: yes, looks good
+    <ArneBab> rather almost the same speed
+    <youpi> apparently
+    <ArneBab> that’s quite a deal. 
+    <ArneBab> what speed should it have as maximum?
+    <ArneBab> (means: does the mach version get out all that’s possible?)
+    <ArneBab> differently put: What speed would GNU/Linux get?
+    <youpi> I'm checking that right now
+    <ArneBab> cool!
+    <ArneBab> we need those numbers for the moth after the next
+    <youpi> Mmm, I'm not sure you really want the linux number :)
+    <youpi> 1.6Gbps :)
+    <ArneBab> oh…
+    <youpi> let me check with udp rather than tcp
+    <ArneBab> so the Hurd is a “tiny bit” worse at using the network… 
+    <youpi> it might simply be an issue with tcp tuning in pfinet
+    <ArneBab> hm, yes
+    <ArneBab> tcp is not that cheap
+    <ArneBab> and has some pretty advanced stuff for getting to high speeds
+    <youpi> well, I'm not thinking about being cheap
+    <youpi> but using more recent tuning
+    <youpi> that does not believe only 1Mbps network cards exist :)
+    <ArneBab> like adaptive windows and such?
+    <ArneBab> :)
+    <youpi> yes
+    * ArneBab remembers that TCP was invented when the connections went over
+        phone lines - by audio :)
+    <youpi> yep
+    <ArneBab> what’s the system load while doing the test?
+    <youpi> yes, udp seems not so bad
+    <ArneBab> ah, cool!
+    <youpi> it's very variable (300-3000Mbps), but like on linux
+    <ArneBab> that pushing it into user space has so low cost is pretty nice.
+    * ArneBab thinks that that’s a point where Hurd pays off
+    <youpi> that's actually what AST said to fosdem
+    <youpi> he doesn't care about putting an RPC for each and every port i/o
+    <youpi> because hardware is slow anyway
+    <ArneBab> jupp
+    <ArneBab> but it is important to see that in real life
diff --git a/open_issues/default_pager.mdwn b/open_issues/default_pager.mdwn
index 683dd870..9a8e9412 100644
--- a/open_issues/default_pager.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/default_pager.mdwn
@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 [[!tag open_issue_gnumach]]
 
-IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-08-31:
+[[!toc]]
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-08-31
 
     <antrik> braunr: do you have any idea what could cause the paging errors
       long before swap is exhausted?
@@ -29,3 +32,6 @@ IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-08-31:
     <braunr> uvm is too different
     <braunr> dragonflybsd maybe, but it's very close to freebsd
     <braunr> i didn't look at darwin/xnu
+
+
+# [[trust_the_behavior_of_translators]]
diff --git a/open_issues/gcc.mdwn b/open_issues/gcc.mdwn
index 5b2f5740..04d399f0 100644
--- a/open_issues/gcc.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/gcc.mdwn
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ Last reviewed up to the [[Git mirror's 9aa4b6a8046270a9dbdf47827f1ea873217d7aa5
 # Build
 
 Here's a log of a GCC build run; this is from our [[Git repository's
-93608b32ee627438dbe8a1844254bf8c305c5dc1 (2011-09-05)
+74a56c71c55f667824eb2ef1d62d408e9c000d5e (2011-10-23)
 sources|source_repositories/gcc]], run on kepler.SCHWINGE and coulomb.SCHWINGE.
 
     $ export LC_ALL=C
@@ -439,6 +439,8 @@ min on coulomb.SCHWINGE.
 
   * `libtool: finish`: `ldconfig` is not run for the Hurd.
 
+    [[libtool]].
+
   * `libjvm.la`, `.libs/libjvm.so`, `libgij.la`, `.libs/libgij.so.12.0.0`
 
     `-Wl,-Bsymbolic` vs. `-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions` (as above)
diff --git a/open_issues/gdb.mdwn b/open_issues/gdb.mdwn
index 0aec12e3..2ae3518c 100644
--- a/open_issues/gdb.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/gdb.mdwn
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ Here's what's to be done for maintaining GNU GDB.
 
 # Configuration
 
-Last reviewed up to the [[Git mirror's 09ddc54333cdbc2f695fd83cbf091a7d5a1c3604
-(2011-09-06) sources|source_repositories/gdb]].
+Last reviewed up to the [[Git mirror's ea9812279fe436be9a010d07ef1dbe465199a3d7
+(2011-09-07) sources|source_repositories/gdb]].
 
   * Globally
 
@@ -115,8 +115,7 @@ On GNU/Hurd, hampered by the [[term_blocking]] issue.
     $ make -k check
     [...]
 
-This needs roughly TODO min on kepler.SCHWINGE, and TODO min on
-coulomb.SCHWINGE.
+This needs roughly 45 min on kepler.SCHWINGE and TODO min on coulomb.SCHWINGE.
 
     $ ssh kepler.SCHWINGE 'cd tmp/source/gdb/ && sed < hurd/master.build/gdb/testsuite/gdb.sum -e "s%\(/media/data\)\?${PWD}%[...]%g"' > open_issues/gdb/sum_linux
     $ ssh coulomb.SCHWINGE 'cd tmp/gdb/ && sed < hurd/master.build/gdb/testsuite/gdb.sum -e "s%\(/media/erich\)\?${PWD}%[...]%g"' > open_issues/gdb/sum_hurd
diff --git a/open_issues/glibc.mdwn b/open_issues/glibc.mdwn
index e8279139..3160c86f 100644
--- a/open_issues/glibc.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/glibc.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 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
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ git log --reverse --pretty=fuller --stat=$COLUMNS,$COLUMNS -p -C --cc ..sourcewa
 
 -->
 
-Last reviewed up to the [[Git mirror's 9d65ea3a9b83ac3961229ba296a7caf90abce68d
-(2011-11-17) sources|source_repositories/glibc]].
+Last reviewed up to the [[Git mirror's d40c5d54cb551acba4ef1617464760c5b3d41a14
+(2012-02-28) sources|source_repositories/glibc]].
 
   * t/dup3
 
@@ -208,6 +208,16 @@ Last reviewed up to the [[Git mirror's 9d65ea3a9b83ac3961229ba296a7caf90abce68d
 
         Then define `_POSIX_MAPPED_FILES`, `_POSIX_SYNCHRONIZED_IO`.
 
+      * `sys/epoll.h`
+
+      * `sys/eventfd.h`
+
+      * `sys/inotify.h`
+
+      * `sys/signalfd.h`
+
+      * `sys/timerfd.h`
+
   * Create `t/cleanup_kernel-features.h`.
 
   * Add tests from Linux kernel commit messages for `t/dup3` et al.
@@ -373,13 +383,15 @@ Last reviewed up to the [[Git mirror's 9d65ea3a9b83ac3961229ba296a7caf90abce68d
       * [OK] 22a89187139a9083ca73989bfd11597e0f85cb61 (`malloc: Remove all
         kinds of unused configuration options and dead code.`).  `NO_STARTER`
         changes (should be OK).
-      * [OK] 02d46fc4b969e25e4ba0c54aa95fa98d7279bd05 (`Simplify malloc
-        initialization`).
+      * [high] `pagesize`, 02d46fc4b969e25e4ba0c54aa95fa98d7279bd05 (`Simplify
+        malloc initialization`); aebae0537dcb408100b88c6b7647a7e858c43237, `BZ
+        11929`.  Is this all kosher for us?  See [[!message-id
+        "87mxd9hl2n.fsf@kepler.schwinge.homeip.net"]].
       * [OK] 83cd14204559abbb52635006832eaf4d2f42514a (`Remove --wth-tls
         option, TLS support is required`).
       * a7c8e6a1478de9f990b11e5e853318ccbe4330f2 (`Fix invalid conversion in
         __cmsg_nxthdr`).  Probably just a C++ thing and not relevant for us;
-        see [[message-id "87r52nk1kx.fsf@kepler.schwinge.homeip.net"]].
+        see [[!message-id "87r52nk1kx.fsf@kepler.schwinge.homeip.net"]].
       * [high] `__ctype_init`, fd5bdc0924e0cfd1688b632068c1b26f3b0c88da.
         Probably need to mirror `init-first.c` change.
       * [high] `__attribute__ ((__leaf__))`, `BZ #13344`,
@@ -391,6 +403,23 @@ Last reviewed up to the [[Git mirror's 9d65ea3a9b83ac3961229ba296a7caf90abce68d
         edc5984d4d18296d7aa3d8f4ed8f7336a743170e +
         57769839788e2c62b68d9dfbf4b35052321278ba.
         <http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.6.1/gcc/Function-Attributes.html>.
+      * [low] implement `timespec_get`,
+        74033a2507841cf077e31221de2481ff30b43d51.
+      * [low] `__volatile`, `BZ #13553`,
+        a784e502472fb3a1afa4d01a47c66b52d23e00f6:
+        `sysdeps/mach/i386/machine-lock.h:typedef __volatile int
+        __spin_lock_t;`, `sysdeps/mach/powerpc/machine-lock.h:typedef
+        __volatile long int __spin_lock_t;`
+      * [high] 6ee65ed6ddbf04402fad0bec6aa9c73b9d982ae4, hopefully OK.
+      * [high] `crti`/`crtn`, 3add8e1353d62d77fdd9b4ca363cdfe7006b0efb,
+        0e7dfaef514bbb3ec08934c6f7f42953bc149257, should just work.
+      * 7638c0fda568726f52ee5a88e1eadcddcd9fa290, `EHWPOISON`, does
+        [[!message-id
+        "Pine.LNX.4.64.1202191652540.3253@digraph.polyomino.org.uk"]] apply for
+        us?
+      * [low] `conformtest`, 3134156779108fe8b46e0f4cd60d837572faaa93 +
+        4efeffc1d583597e4f52985b9747269e47b754e2 +
+        d94a4670800de6e8f088b8630ad5142866127980 -- what does it do for us?
 
 
 # Build
@@ -405,10 +434,18 @@ sources|source_repositories/glibc]], run on coulomb.SCHWINGE.
     $ make install_root=/INVALID 2>&1 | tee log_build_
     [...]
 
-This takes up around 400 MiB and needs roughly 120 min on coulomb.SCHWINGE.
+This takes up around 500 MiB and needs roughly X min on kepler.SCHWINGE and 100
+min on coulomb.SCHWINGE (GCC 4.4/4.5/4.6).
 
 <!--
-    $ (make install_root=/INVALID && touch .go-install) 2>&1 | tee log_build_ && test -f .go-install && (make install_root="$PWD".install install && touch .go-check) 2>&1 | tee log_install && test -f .go-check && make -k install_root=/INVALID check TIMEOUTFACTOR=100 2>&1 | tee log_check
+    $ (make install_root=/INVALID && touch .go-install) 2>&1 | tee log_build_ && test -f .go-install && (make install_root="$PWD".install install && touch .go-check) 2>&1 | tee log_install && test -f .go-check && ln -s /usr/lib/i386-*gnu/libstdc++.so.6 /lib/i386-*gnu/libpthread-stubs.so.0 /lib/i386-*gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 mach/libmachuser.so.1 hurd/libhurduser.so.0.3 ./ && make -k install_root=/INVALID check TIMEOUTFACTOR=100 2>&1 | tee log_check
+
+Mask out gcc-4.X (with possibly a backslash before the dot), GCC 4.5's column
+output for (warning, error) messages, GCC 4.6's `[-Wsomething]` or `[enabled by
+default]` identifiers which warning flag triggered.
+
+    $ for f in log_*; do sed -e 's%gcc-4\\\?.[456]%[GCC]%g' -e 's%g++-4\\\?.[456]%[G++]%g' -e 's%\(:[0-9]\+:\)[0-9]\+:%\1%' -e 's% \[\(-W[a-z-]\+\|enabled by default\)\]$%%' < "$f" > "$f".nv; done
+
     $ find ./ -name \*.o -o -name \*.os -o -name \*.oS | while read f; do ~/tmp/gcc/git/contrib/compare-debug --preserve ../Roger_Whittaker.build-gcc-4.4-486.O/"$f" "$f"; done 2>&1 | less 
     $ while read f; do (readelf -a "$f" && objdump -xDrtw "$f") > N && (cd ../Roger_Whittaker.build-gcc-4.4-486.O/ && readelf -a "$f" && objdump -xDrtw "$f") > O && diff -u O N | less; done
     $ find ./ -name \*.o -o -name \*.os -o -name \*.oS | while read f; do readelf -h "$f" | grep OS/ABI | (read a b && [ x"$b" != x'UNIX - System V' ] && echo "### $f: $b"); done
@@ -420,18 +457,48 @@ This takes up around 400 MiB and needs roughly 120 min on coulomb.SCHWINGE.
 
 TODO.
 
+  * With GCC 4.5, there's a ton of these warnings:
+
+        hurd/hurd.h: In function '__hurd_fail':
+        hurd/hurd.h:73: warning: case value '0' not in enumerated type 'error_t'
+
+    ... as well as a few individual instances:
+
+        hurdselect.c: In function '_hurd_select':
+        hurdselect.c:265: warning: case value '0' not in enumerated type 'error_t'
+        get-host.c: In function '_hurd_get_host_config':
+        get-host.c:38: warning: case value '0' not in enumerated type 'error_t'
+        hurdmsg.c: In function '_S_msg_get_init_ints':
+        hurdmsg.c:186: warning: case value '0' not in enumerated type 'error_t'
+        hurdmsg.c: In function '_S_msg_set_init_ints':
+        hurdmsg.c:273: warning: case value '0' not in enumerated type 'error_t'
+        intr-msg.c: In function '_hurd_intr_rpc_mach_msg':
+        intr-msg.c:363: warning: case value '0' not in enumerated type 'error_t'
+        sysdeps/mach/hurd/setitimer.c: In function 'timer_thread':
+        sysdeps/mach/hurd/setitimer.c:117: warning: case value '0' not in enumerated type 'error_t'
+        sysdeps/mach/hurd/wait4.c: In function '__wait4':
+        sysdeps/mach/hurd/wait4.c:40: warning: case value '0' not in enumerated type 'error_t'
+        sysdeps/mach/hurd/fork.c: In function '__fork':
+        sysdeps/mach/hurd/fork.c:423: warning: case value '0' not in enumerated type 'error_t'
+        sysdeps/mach/hurd/spawni.c: In function '__spawni':
+        sysdeps/mach/hurd/spawni.c:600: warning: case value '0' not in enumerated type 'error_t'
+        sysdeps/mach/hurd/setpriority.c: In function 'setonepriority':
+        sysdeps/mach/hurd/setpriority.c:66: warning: case value '0' not in enumerated type 'error_t'
+        sysdeps/mach/hurd/ioctl.c: In function 'send_rpc':
+        sysdeps/mach/hurd/ioctl.c:177: warning: case value '0' not in enumerated type 'error_t'
+        sysdeps/mach/hurd/ioctl.c: In function '__ioctl':
+        sysdeps/mach/hurd/ioctl.c:306: warning: case value '0' not in enumerated type 'error_t'
+
 
 # Install
 
 TODO.
 
-<!--
     $ make install_root="$PWD".install install 2>&1 | tee log_install
     [...]
 
-This takes up around 50 MiB, and needs roughly 1 min on kepler.SCHWINGE and 3
+This takes up around 100 MiB, and needs roughly X min on kepler.SCHWINGE and 18
 min on coulomb.SCHWINGE.
--->
 
 
 ## Analysis
@@ -471,25 +538,51 @@ Comparing the results files, [[sum_linux]] to [[sum_hurd]]:
 
 There is quite a baseline of failures.
 
+
 ### Additional Failures Compared to Debian
 
     $ bash ~/tmp/glibc/debian/eglibc-2.13/debian/testsuite-checking/convertlog.sh log_check  > log_check.filtered
     $ bash ~/tmp/glibc/debian/eglibc-2.13/debian/testsuite-checking/compare.sh ~/tmp/glibc/debian/eglibc-2.13/debian/testsuite-checking/expected-results-i486-gnu-libc log_check.filtered
 
-  * `bug-atexit3.out`, `debug/tst-chk4`, `debug/tst-lfschk4`,
-    `debug/tst-lfschk5`, `debug/tst-lfschk6`, `debug/tst-chk5`,
-    `debug/tst-chk6`
+  * `bug-atexit3.out`, `debug/tst-chk4`, `debug/tst-chk5`, `debug/tst-chk6`,
+    `debug/tst-lfschk4`, `debug/tst-lfschk5`, `debug/tst-lfschk6`
 
         dlopen failed: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
 
+    See [[!message-id "20090420002344.11798.qmail@s461.sureserver.com"]].
+    Hacked around with `ln -s /usr/lib/i386-*gnu/libstdc++.so.6
+    /lib/i386-*gnu/libpthread-stubs.so.0 /lib/i386-*gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 ./`.
+    This is a bug in the glibc test harness.  Should probably use some
+    `configure` magic akin to the `fixincludes` stuff (`gcc-4.4
+    -print-file-name=libstdc++.so.6`, etc.).
+
+  * `debug/tst-chk4`, `debug/tst-chk5`, `debug/tst-chk6`, `debug/tst-lfschk4`,
+    `debug/tst-lfschk5`, `debug/tst-lfschk6`
+
+    Fail in the same way as the C ones, `tst-chk1..3`.
+
   * `io/ftwtest`, `posix/globtest`, `iconvdata/iconv-test`, `intl/tst-gettext`,
     `malloc/tst-mtrace`, `elf/tst-pathopt`, `iconvdata/tst-tables`,
     `grp/tst_fgetgrent`, `dlfcn/tststatic`, `dlfcn/tststatic2`,
-    `posix/wordexp-tst`, `localedata/bug-setlocale1.out`
+    `posix/wordexp-tst`, `localedata/bug-setlocale1.out`, `posix/tst-getconf`
 
         /home/thomas/tmp/glibc/tschwinge/Roger_Whittaker.build-gcc-4.4-486.O/io/ftwtest: error while loading shared libraries: libmachuser.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
 
-    Should be using the build-directory one anyway!
+    Looking into `localedata/bug-setlocale1.c`, it is clear what it going on:
+    only the root of the build directory is added for `--library-path`, but
+    none of the other directories that are additionally used.  This is a bug in
+    the glibc test harness.  Hacked around by `ln -s mach/libmachuser.so.1
+    hurd/libhurduser.so.0.3 ./`.  Hopefully the other instances are similar.
+
+  * `posix/tst-getconf`
+
+    Ends with:
+
+        getconf POSIX_ALLOC_SIZE_MIN /: /home/thomas/tmp/glibc/tschwinge/Roger_Whittaker.build-gcc-4.4-486/posix/getconf: pathconf: /: Invalid argument
+
+  * `dlfcn/tststatic`, `dlfcn/tststatic2`
+
+    No output, SEGFAULT.
 
   * `math/test-idouble`, `math/test-ifloat`, `math/test-ildoubl`,
     `math/test-ldouble`
@@ -524,11 +617,6 @@ There is quite a baseline of failures.
 
         tst-ether_line.c:19: error: 'ETH_ALEN' undeclared (first use in this function)
 
-  * `posix/tst-getconf`
-
-        /bin/sh -e tst-getconf.sh /home/thomas/tmp/glibc/tschwinge/Roger_Whittaker.build-gcc-4.4-486.O/ /home/thomas/tmp/glibc/tschwinge/Roger_Whittaker.build-gcc-4.4-486.O/elf/ ld.so.1
-        make[2]: *** [/home/thomas/tmp/glibc/tschwinge/Roger_Whittaker.build-gcc-4.4-486.O/posix/tst-getconf.out] Error 127
-
   * `time/tst-mktime2`
 
         tst-mktime2.c:132: error: 'INT_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
@@ -556,6 +644,10 @@ There is quite a baseline of failures.
 
         /media/erich/home/thomas/tmp/glibc/tschwinge/Roger_Whittaker/string/test-strnlen.c:87: undefined reference to `MIN'
 
+  * `assert/test-assert.out`
+
+    Fails sometimes...
+
   * `stdlib/bug-getcontext.out`
 
         getcontext failed, errno: 1073741902.
diff --git a/open_issues/glibc_madvise_vs_static_linking.mdwn b/open_issues/glibc_madvise_vs_static_linking.mdwn
index bfda0f74..1f766428 100644
--- a/open_issues/glibc_madvise_vs_static_linking.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/glibc_madvise_vs_static_linking.mdwn
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 [[!tag open_issue_glibc]]
 
+[[!sourceware_bug 4822]].
+
     $ echo 'int main() {}' | gcc -o /dev/null -static -x c -
     /usr/lib/gcc/i486-gnu/4.4.5/../../../libcrt.a(malloc.o): In function `_int_free':
     (.text+0xdc3): warning: warning: madvise is not implemented and will always fail
@@ -24,9 +26,22 @@ case of MADV_DONTNEED), but may influence its performance.  The kernel is free
 to ignore the advice.* (`man madvise`), so we may simply want to turn it into a
 no-op in glibc, avoiding the link-time warning.
 
-2011-07: This is what Samuel has done for Debian glibc.
-
 GCC c5db973fdab3db3e13db575e5650c0bcfd3630f4 (2011-10-17) makes use of this.
 As we now export the symbol (and `MADV_DONTNEED`, too), GCC will no longer
 `munmap` pages, but will keep them mapped for later re-use.  This may increase
 memory usage.
+
+2011-07: This is what Samuel has [done for Debian
+glibc](http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-glibc/glibc-package/trunk/debian/patches/hurd-i386/local-madvise_warn.diff).
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-16
+
+    <tschwinge> youpi: With Roland's fix the situation will be that just using
+      gcc -static doesn't emit the stub warning, but still will do so in case
+      that the source code itself links in madvise.  Is this acceptable for
+      you/Debian/...?
+    <youpi> packages with -Werror will still bug out
+    <youpi> not that I consider -Werror to be a good idea, though :)
+    <tschwinge> youpi: Indeed.  Compiler warnings can be caused by all kinds of
+      things.  -Werror is good for development, but not for releases.
diff --git a/open_issues/gnumach_memory_management.mdwn b/open_issues/gnumach_memory_management.mdwn
index c34d1200..d29e316c 100644
--- a/open_issues/gnumach_memory_management.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/gnumach_memory_management.mdwn
@@ -2089,7 +2089,15 @@ There is a [[!FF_project 266]][[!tag bounty]] on this task.
     <braunr> ou alors dans les .h ipc
 
 
-# IRC, freenode, #hurdfr, 2012-01-18
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-01-18
 
     <braunr> does the slab branch need other reviews/reports before being
       integrated ?
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-01-30
+
+    <braunr> youpi: do you have some idea about when you want to get the slab
+      branch in master ?
+    <youpi> I was considering as soon as mcsim gets his paper
+    <braunr> right
diff --git a/open_issues/libnetfs_io_map.mdwn b/open_issues/libnetfs_io_map.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b340de90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/open_issues/libnetfs_io_map.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 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 title="libnetfs: io_map"]]
+
+[[!tag open_issue_hurd]]
+
+This hampers [[hurd/translator/nfs]] usability, for example.
+
+IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-03-14:
+
+    <civodul> i just realized that ld.so uses mmap unconditionally
+    <civodul> so executables or shared libs can't be used off a netfs-based
+      file system
+    <civodul> that's annoying
+    <tschwinge> civodul: Do you know what it takes to fix libnetfs?  I have no
+      idea.
+    <tschwinge> Never looked at it.
+    <civodul> tschwinge: implementing io_map
+    <civodul> but i think the idea is that io_map typically isn't convenient
+      for network file systems
+    <civodul> which is why it doesn't have it
+    <civodul> the GCS says "thou shall not require mmap" ;-)
diff --git a/open_issues/libtool.mdwn b/open_issues/libtool.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7b2e0fe0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/open_issues/libtool.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag open_issue_porting]]
+
+# [[GCC]]: `libtool: finish`: `ldconfig` is not run for the Hurd.
+
+This probably comes from libtool's `libltdl/m4/libtool.m4` (or similar):
+`finish_cmds`.
+
+There are a few other differences between `gnu` and `linux* | k*bsd*-gnu |
+kopensolaris*-gnu`.
diff --git a/open_issues/linux_as_the_kernel.mdwn b/open_issues/linux_as_the_kernel.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f14b777e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/open_issues/linux_as_the_kernel.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+Instead of attempting a [[history/port_to_another_microkernel]], or writing an
+own one, an implementation of a Hurd system could use another existing
+operating system/kernel, like [[UNIX]], for example, the Linux kernel.  This is
+not a [[microkernel]], but that is not an inherent hindrance; depending on what
+the goals are.
+
+There has been an attempt for building a [[Mach_on_top_of_POSIX]].
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-08
+
+Richard's X-15 Mach re-implementation:
+
+    <braunr> and in case you didn't notice, it's stalled
+    <braunr> actually i don't intend to work on it for the time being
+    <braunr> i'd rather do as neal suggested: take linux, strip it, and give it
+      a mach interface
+    <braunr> (if your goal really is to get something usable for real world
+      tasks)
+    <antrik> braunr: why would you want to strip down Linux? I think one of the
+      major benefits of building a Linux-Frankenmach would be the ability to
+      use standard Linux functionality alongside Hurd...
+    <braunr> we could have a linux x86_64 based mach replacement in "little"
+      time, with a compatible i386 interface for the hurd
+    <braunr> antrik: well, many of the vfs and network subsystems would be hard
+      to use
+    <antrik> BTW, one of the talks at FOSDEM was about the possibility of using
+      different kernels for Genode, and pariticularily focused on the
+      possibilities with using Linux... unfortunately, I wasn't able to follow
+      the whole talk; but they mentioned similar possibilities to what I'm
+      envisioning here :-)
+
diff --git a/open_issues/memory_object_model_vs_block-level_cache.mdwn b/open_issues/memory_object_model_vs_block-level_cache.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7da5dea4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/open_issues/memory_object_model_vs_block-level_cache.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,273 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag open_issue_documentation open_issue_hurd open_issue_gnumach]]
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-14
+
+    <slpz> Open question: what do you think about dropping the memory object
+      model and implementing a simple block-level cache?
+
+[[microkernel/mach/memory_object]].
+
+    <kilobug> slpz: AFAIK the memory object has more purpose than just cache,
+      it's allow used for passing chunk of data between processes, handling
+      swap (which similar to cache, but still slightly different), ...
+    <slpz> kilobug: user processes usually make their way to data with POSIX
+      operations, so memory objects are only needed for mmap'ed files
+    <slpz> kilobug: and swap can be replaced for an in-kernel system or even
+      could still use the memory object
+    <braunr> slpz: memory objects are used for the page cache
+    <kilobug> slpz: translators (especially diskfs based) make heavy use of
+      memory objects, and if "user processes" use POSIX semantics, Hurd process
+      (translators, pagers, ...) shouldn't be bound to POSIX
+    <slpz> braunr: and page cache could be moved to a lower level, near to the
+      devices
+    <braunr> not likely
+    <braunr> well, it could, but then you'd still have the file system overhead
+    <slpz> kilobug: but the use of memory objects it's not compulsory, you can
+      easily write a fs translator without implementing memory objects at all
+      (except to mmap)
+    <braunr> a unified buffer/VM cache as all modern systems have is probably
+      the most efficient approach
+    <slpz> braunr: I agree. I want to look at *BSD/Linux vfs systems to seem
+      how much cache policy depends on the filesystem
+    <slpz> braunr: Are you aware of any good papers on this matter?
+    <braunr> netbsd UVM, the linux virtual memory system
+    <braunr> both a bit old bit still relevant
+    <slpz> braunr: Thanks.
+    <slpz> the problem in our case is that having FS and cache information at
+      different contexts (kernel vs. translator), I find hard to coordinate
+      them.
+    <slpz> that's why I though about a block-level cache that GNU Mach could
+      manage by itself
+    <slpz> I wonder how QNX deals with this
+    <braunr> the point of having a simple page cache is explicitely about not
+      caring if those pages are blocks or files or whatever
+    <braunr> the kernel (at least, mach) normally has all the accounting
+      information it needs to implement its cache policy
+    <braunr> file system translators shouldn't cache much
+    <braunr> the pager interface could be refined, but it looks ok to me as it
+      is
+    <slpz> Mach has the accounting info, but it's not able to purge the cache
+      without coordination with translators
+    <braunr> which is normal
+    <slpz> And this is a big problem when memory pressure increases, as it
+      doesn't know for sure when memory is going to be freed
+    <braunr> Mach flushes its cache when it decides to, and sends back dirty
+      pages if needed by the pager
+    <braunr> that's the case with every paging implementation
+    <braunr> the main difference is security with untrusted pagers
+    <braunr> but that's another issue
+    <slpz> but in a monolithic implementation, the kernel is able for force a
+      chunk of cache memory to be freed without hoping for other process to do
+      the job
+    <braunr> that's not true
+    <braunr> they're not process, they're threads, but the timing issue is the
+      same
+    <braunr> see pdflush on linux
+    <slpz> no, it isn't.
+    <braunr> when memory is scarce, threads that request memory can either wait
+      or immediately fail, and if they wait, they're usually woken by one of
+      the vm threads once flushing is done
+    <slpz> a kernel thread can access all the information in the kernel, and
+      synchronization is pretty easy.
+    <braunr> on mach, synchronization is done with messages, that's even easier
+      than shared kernel locks
+    <slpz> with processes in different spaces, resource coordination becomes
+      really difficult
+    <braunr> and what kind of info would an external pager need when simply
+      asked to take back its dirty pages
+    <braunr> what resources ?
+    <slpz> just take a look at the thread storm problem when GNU Mach needs to
+      clean a bunch of pages
+    <braunr> Mach is big enough to correctly account memory
+    <braunr> there can be thread storms on monolithic systems
+    <braunr> that's a Mach issue, not a microkernel issue
+    <braunr> that's why linux limits the number of pdflush thread instances
+    <slpz> Mach can account memory, but can't assure when be freed by any
+      means, in a lesser degree than a monolithic system
+    <braunr> again i disagree
+    <braunr> no system can guarantee when memory will be freed with paging
+    <slpz> a block level cache can, for most situations
+    <braunr> slpz: why ?
+    <braunr> slpz: or how i mean ?
+    <slpz> braunr: with a block-level page cache, GNU Mach should be able to
+      flush dirty pages directly to the underlaying device without all the
+      complexity and resource cost involved in a m_o_data_return message. It
+      can also throttle the rate at which pages are being cleaned, and do all
+      this while blocking new page allocations to deal with memory exhaustion
+      cases.
+    <slpz> braunr: in the current state, when cleaning dirty pages, GNU Mach
+      sends a bunch on m_o_data_return to the corresponding pagers, hoping they
+      will do their job as soon and as fast as possible.
+    <slpz> memory is not really freed, but transformed from page cache to
+      anonymous memory pertaining to the corresponding translator
+    <slpz> and GNU Mach never knows for sure when this memory is released, if
+      it ever is.
+    <slpz> not being able to flush dirty pages synchronously is a big problem
+      when you need to throttle memory usage
+    <slpz> and needing allocating more memory when you're trying to free (which
+      is the case for the m_o_data_return mechanism) makes the problem even
+      worse
+    <braunr> your idea of a block level cache means in kernel block drivers
+    <braunr> that's not the direction we're taking
+    <braunr> i agree flushing should be a synchronous process, which was one of
+      the proposed improvements in the thread migration papers
+    <braunr> (they didn't achieve it but thought about it for future works, so
+      that the thread at the origin of the fault would handle it itself)
+    <braunr> but it should be possible to have kernel threads similar to
+      pdflush and throttle flush requests too
+    <braunr> again, i really think it's a mach bug, and having a buffer cache
+      would be stepping backward
+    <braunr> the real design issue is allocating memory while trying to free
+      it, yes
+    <slpz> braunr: thread migration doesn't apply to asynchronous IPC, and the
+      entire paging mechanism is implemented this way
+    <slpz> in fact, trying to do a synchronous m_o_data_return will trigger a
+      deadlock for sure
+    <slpz> to achieve synchronous flushing with translators, the entire paging
+      model must be redesigned
+    <slpz> It's true that I'm not very confident of the viability of user space
+      drivers
+    <slpz> at least, not for every device
+    <slpz> I know this is against the current ideas for most ukernel designs,
+      but if we want to achieve real work functionality, I think some
+      sacrifices must be done. Or at least a reasonable compromise.
+    <braunr> slpz: thread migration for paging requests implies synchronous
+      RPC, we don't care much about the IPC layer there
+    <braunr> and it requires large changes of the VM code in addition, yes
+    <braunr> let's not talk about this, we don't have thread migration anyway
+      :p
+    <braunr> except the allocation-on-free-path issue, i really don't see how
+      the current pager interface or the page cache creates problems wrt
+      flushing ..
+    <braunr> monolithic systems also have that problem, with lower impacts
+      though, but still
+    <slpz> braunr: because as it doesn't know when memory is really freed, 1)
+      it just blindly sends a bunch of m_o_data_return to the pagers, usually
+      overloading them (causing thread storms), and 2) it can't properly
+      throttle new page requests to deal with resource exhaustion
+    <braunr> it does know when memory is really freed
+    <braunr> and yes, it blindly sends a bunch of requests, they can and should
+      be trottled
+    <slpz> but dirty pages freed become indistinguishable from common anonymous
+      chunks released, so it doesn't really know if page flushes are really
+      working or not (i.e. doesn't know how fast a device is processing write
+      requests)
+    <braunr> memory is freed when the pager deallocates it
+    <braunr> the speed of the operation is irrelevant
+    <braunr> no system can rely on disk speed to guarantee correct page flushes
+    <braunr> disk or anything else
+    <slpz> requests can't be throttled if Mach doesn't know when they are being
+      processed
+    <braunr> it can easily know it
+    <braunr> they are processed as soon as the request is sent from the kernel
+    <braunr> and processing is done when the pager acknowledges the end of the
+      flush
+    <braunr> memory backing the flushed pages should be released before
+      acknowleding that to avoid starting new requests too soon
+    <slpz> AFAIK pagers doesn't acknowledge the end of the flush
+    <braunr> well that's where the interface should be refined
+    <slpz> Mach just sends the m_o_data_return and continues on its own
+    <braunr> that's why flushing should be synrhconous
+    <braunr> are you sure about that however ?
+    <slpz> so the entire paging system needs a new design... :)
+    <slpz> pretty sure
+    <braunr> not a new design ..
+    <braunr> there is m_o_supply_completed, i don't see how difficult it would
+      be to add m_o_data_return_completed
+    <braunr> it's not a small change, but not a difficult one either
+    <braunr> i'm more worried about the allocation problem
+    <braunr> the default pager should probably be wired in memory
+    <braunr> maybe others
+    <slpz> let's suppose a case in which Mach needs to free memory due to an
+      increase in its pressure. vm_pageout_daemon starts running, clean pages
+      are freed easily, but for each dirty one a m_o_data_return in sent. 1)
+      when should this daemon stop sending m_o_data_return and start waiting
+      for m_o_data_return_completed? 2) what happens if the translator needs to
+      read new blocks to fulfill a write request (pretty common in ext2fs)?
+    <braunr> it should stop after an arbitrary limit is reached
+    <braunr> a reasonable one
+    <braunr> linux limits the number of pdflush threads for that reason as i
+      mentioned (to 8 iirc)
+    <braunr> the problem of reading blocks while flushing is what i'm worried
+      about too, hence the need to wire that code
+    <braunr> well, i'm nto sure it's needed
+    <braunr> again, a reasonable about of free memory should be reserved for
+      that at all times
+    <slpz> but the work for pdflush seems to be a lot easier, as it only deals
+      directly with block devices (if I understood it correctly, I just started
+      looking at it).
+    <braunr> i don't know how other systems compute that, but this is how they
+      seem to do as well
+    <braunr> no, i don't think so
+    <slpz> well, I'll try to invest a few days understanding how pdflush work,
+      to see if some ideas can be borrowed for Hurd
+    <braunr> iirc, freebsd has thresholds in percent for each part of its cache
+      (active, inactive, free, dirty)
+    <slpz> but I still think simple solutions work better, and using the memory
+      object for page cache is tremendously complex.
+    <braunr> the amount of free cache pages is generally sufficient to
+      guarantee much memory can be released at once if needed, without flushing
+      anything
+    <braunr> yes but that's the whole point of the Mach VM
+    <braunr> and its greatest advance ..
+    <slpz> what, memory objects?
+    <braunr> yes
+    <braunr> using physical memory as a cache for anything, not just block
+      buffers
+    <slpz> memory objects work great as a way to provide a shared image of
+      objects between processes, but as page cache they are an overkill (IMHO).
+    <slpz> or, at least, in the way we're using them
+    <braunr> probably
+    <braunr> http://lwn.net/Articles/326552/
+    <braunr> this can help udnerstand the problems we may have without better
+      knowledge of the underlying devices, yes
+    <braunr> (e.g. not being able to send multiple requests to pagers that
+      don't share the same disk)
+    <braunr> slpz: actually i'm not sure it's that overkill
+    <braunr> the linux vm uses struct vm_file to represent memory objects iirc
+    <braunr> there are many links between that structure and some vfs related
+      subsystems
+    <braunr> when a system very actively uses the page cache, the kernel has to
+      maintain a lot of objects to accurately describe the cache content
+    <braunr> you could consider this overkill at first too
+    <braunr> the mach way of doing it just implies some ipc messages instead of
+      function calls, it's not that overkill for me
+    <braunr> the main problems are recursion (allocation while freeing,
+      handling page faults in order to handle flushes, that sort of things)
+    <braunr> struct file and struct address_space actually
+    <braunr> slpz: see struct address_space, it contains a set of function
+      pointers that can help understanding the linux pager interface
+    <braunr> they probably sufferred from similar caveats and worked around
+      them, adjusting that interface on the way
+    <slpz> but their strategy makes them able to treat the relationship between
+      the page cache and the block devices in a really simple way, almost as a
+      traditional storage cache.
+    <slpz> meanwhile on Mach+pager scenario, the relationship between a block
+      in a file and its underlying storage becomes really blurry
+    <slpz> this is a huge advantage when flusing out data, specially when
+      resources are scarce
+    <slpz> I think the idea of using abstract objects for page cache, loses a
+      bit the point that we just want to avoid accessing constantly to a slow
+      device
+    <slpz> and breaking the tight relationship between the device and its
+      cache, makes things a lot harder
+    <slpz> this also manifest itself when flushing clean pages, as things like
+      having an static maximum for cached memory objects
+    <slpz> we shouldn't care about the number of objects, we just need to
+      control the number of pages
+    <slpz> but as we need the pager to flush pages, we need to keep alive a lot
+      of control ports to them
+    <mcsim> slpz: When mo_data_return is called, once the memory manager no
+      longer needs supplied data, it should be deallocated using
+      vm_deallocate. So this way pagers acknowledges the end of flush.
diff --git a/open_issues/nightly_builds.mdwn b/open_issues/nightly_builds.mdwn
index 6eef7d19..b1097dc1 100644
--- a/open_issues/nightly_builds.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/nightly_builds.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2012 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
@@ -13,6 +14,8 @@ automatic [[unit_testing]] on them.
 
 Resources:
 
+  * [[hurd/running/NixOS]]
+
   * [[toolchain/cross-gnu]]
 
       * [[Debian_Cross_Toolchain]]
diff --git a/open_issues/sa_siginfo_sa_sigaction.mdwn b/open_issues/sa_siginfo_sa_sigaction.mdwn
index 3b8edff7..4e1fa849 100644
--- a/open_issues/sa_siginfo_sa_sigaction.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/sa_siginfo_sa_sigaction.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2012 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
@@ -12,7 +13,8 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 [[!tag open_issue_glibc]]
 
-Note: SA_SIGINFO has now been implemented by Jeremie Koenig. It will be uploaded in Debian eglibc 2.13-19.
+Note: SA_SIGINFO has now been implemented by Jérémie Koenig.  It will be
+uploaded in Debian eglibc 2.13-19.
 
 IRC, #hurd, August / September 2010:
 
diff --git a/open_issues/select.mdwn b/open_issues/select.mdwn
index 0b69d645..abec304d 100644
--- a/open_issues/select.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/select.mdwn
@@ -14,9 +14,11 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 There are a lot of reports about this issue, but no thorough analysis.
 
 
-# `elinks`
+# Short Timeouts
 
-IRC, unknown channel, unknown date.
+## `elinks`
+
+IRC, unknown channel, unknown date:
 
     <paakku> This is related to ELinks... I've looked at the select()
       implementation for the Hurd in glibc and it seems that giving it a short
@@ -31,9 +33,186 @@ IRC, unknown channel, unknown date.
     <paakku> Or do I just imagine this problem?
 
 
-# dbus
+## [[dbus]]
+
+
+## IRC
+
+### IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-01-31
+
+    <braunr> don't you find vim extremely slow lately ?
+    <braunr> (and not because of cpu usage but rather unnecessary sleeps)
+    <jkoenig> yes.
+    <braunr> wasn't there a discussion to add a minimum timeout to mach_msg for
+      select() or something like that during the past months ?
+    <youpi> there was, and it was added
+    <youpi> that could be it
+    <youpi> I don't want to drop it though, some app really need it
+    <braunr> as a debian patch only iirc ?
+    <youpi> yes
+    <braunr> ok
+    <braunr> if i'm right, the proper solution was to fix remote servers
+      instead of client calls
+    <youpi> (no drop, unless the actual bug gets fixed of course)
+    <braunr> so i'm guessing it's just a hack in between
+    <youpi> not only
+    <youpi> with a timeout of zero, mach will just give *no* time for the
+      servers to give an answer
+    <braunr> that's because the timeout is part of the client call
+    <youpi> so the protocol has to be rethought, both server/client side
+    <braunr> a suggested solution was to make it a parameter
+    <braunr> i mean, part of the message
+    <braunr> not a mach_msg parameter
+    <jkoenig> OTOH the servers should probably not be trusted to enforce the
+      timeout.
+    <braunr> why ?
+    <jkoenig> they're not necessarily trusted. (but then again, that's not the
+      only circumstances where that's a problem)
+    <braunr> there is a proposed solution for that too (trust root and self
+      servers only by default)
+    <jkoenig> I'm not sure they're particularily easy to identify in the
+      general case
+    <braunr> "they" ? the solutions you mean ?
+    <braunr> or the servers ?
+    <youpi> jkoenig: you can't trust the servers in general to provide an
+      answer, timeout or not
+    <jkoenig> yes the root/self servers.
+    <braunr> ah
+    <youpi> jkoenig: you can stat the actual node before dereferencing the
+      translator
+    <jkoenig> could they not report FD activity asynchronously to the message
+      port? libc would cache the state
+    <youpi> I don't understand what you mean
+    <youpi> anyway, really making the timeout part of the message is not a
+      problem
+    <braunr> 10:10 < youpi> jkoenig: you can't trust the servers in general to
+      provide an answer, timeout or not
+    <youpi> we already trust everything (e.g. read() ) into providing an answer
+      immediately
+    <braunr> i don't see why
+    <youpi> braunr: put sleep(1) in S_io_read()
+    <youpi> it'll not give you an immediate answer, O_NODELAY being set or not
+    <braunr> well sleep is evil, but let's just say the server thread blocks
+    <braunr> ok
+    <braunr> well fix the server
+    <youpi> so we agree
+    <braunr> ?
+    <youpi> in the current security model, we trust the server into achieve the
+      timeout
+    <braunr> yes
+    <youpi> and jkoenig's remark is more global than just select()
+    <braunr> taht's why we must make sure we're contacting trusted servers by
+      default
+    <youpi> it affects read() too
+    <braunr> sure
+    <youpi> so there's no reason not to fix select()
+    <youpi> that's the important point
+    <braunr> but this doesn't mean we shouldn't pass the timeout to the server
+      and expect it to handle it correctly
+    <youpi> we keep raising issues with things, and not achieve anything, in
+      the Hurd
+    <braunr> if it doesn't, then it's a bug, like in any other kernel type
+    <youpi> I'm not the one to convince :)
+    <braunr> eh, some would say it's one of the goals :)
+    <braunr> who's to be convinced then ?
+    <youpi> jkoenig: 
+    <youpi> who raised the issue
+    <braunr> ah
+    <youpi> well, see the irc log :)
+    <jkoenig> not that I'm objecting to any patch, mind you :-)
+    <braunr> i didn't understand it that way
+    <braunr> if you can't trust the servers to act properly, it's similar to
+      not trusting linux fs code
+    <youpi> no, the difference is that servers can be non-root
+    <youpi> while on linux they can't
+    <braunr> again, trust root and self
+    <youpi> non-root fuse mounts are not followed by default
+    <braunr> as with fuse
+    <youpi> that's still to be written
+    <braunr> yes
+    <youpi> and as I said, you can stat the actual  node and then dereference
+      the translator afterwards
+    <braunr> but before writing anything, we'd better agree on the solution :)
+    <youpi> which, again, "just" needs to be written
+    <antrik> err... adding a timeout to mach_msg()? that's just wrong
+    <antrik> (unless I completely misunderstood what this discussion was
+      about...)
+
+
+#### IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-04
+
+    <youpi> this is confirmed: the select hack patch hurts vim performance a
+      lot
+    <youpi> I'll use program_invocation_short_name to make the patch even more
+      ugly
+    <youpi> (of course, we really need to fix select somehow)
+    <pinotree> could it (also) be that vim uses select() somehow "badly"?
+    <youpi> fsvo "badly", possibly, but still
+    <gnu_srs1> Could that the select() stuff be the reason for a ten times
+      slower ethernet too, e.g. scp and apt-get?
+    <pinotree> i didn't find myself neither scp nor apt-get slower, unlike vim
+    <youpi> see strace: scp does not use select
+    <youpi> (I haven't checked  apt yet)
+
+
+### IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-14
+
+    <braunr> on another subject, I'm wondering how to correctly implement
+      select/poll with a timeout on a multiserver system :/
+    <braunr> i guess a timeout of 0 should imply a non blocking round-trip to
+      servers only
+    <braunr> oh good, the timeout is already part of the io_select call
+
+
+### IRC, freenode, #hurdfr, 2012-02-22
+
+    <braunr> le gros souci de notre implé, c'est que le timeout de select est
+      un paramètre client
+    <braunr> un paramètre passé directement à mach_msg
+    <braunr> donc si tu mets un timeout à 0, y a de fortes chances que mach_msg
+      retourne avant même qu'un RPC puisse se faire entièrement (round-trip
+      client-serveur donc)
+    <braunr> et donc quand le timeout est à 0 pour du non bloquant, ben tu
+      bloques pas, mais t'as pas tes évènements ..
+    <abique|work> peut-être que passer le timeout de 10ms à 10 us améliorerait
+      la situation.
+    <abique|work> car 10ms c'est un peut beaucoup :)
+    <braunr> c'est l'interval timer système historique unix
+    <braunr> et mach n'est pas préemptible
+    <braunr> donc c'est pas envisageable en l'état
+    <braunr> ceci dit c'est pas complètement lié
+    <braunr> enfin si, il nous faudrait qqchose de similaire aux high res
+      timers de linux
+    <braunr> enfin soit des timer haute résolution, soit un timer programmable
+      facilement
+    <braunr> actuellement il n'y a que le 8254 qui est programmé, et pour
+      assurer un scheduling à peu près correct, il est programmé une fois, à
+      10ms, et basta
+    <braunr> donc oui, préciser 1ms ou 1us, ça changera rien à l'interval
+      nécessaire pour déterminer que le timer a expiré
+
+
+### IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-27
 
-See [[dbus]].
+    <youpi> braunr: extremely dirty hack
+    <youpi> I don't even want to detail :)
+    <braunr> oh
+    <braunr> does it affect vim only ?
+    <braunr> or all select users ?
+    <youpi> we've mostly seen it with vim
+    <youpi> but possibly fakeroot has some issues too
+    <youpi> it's very little probable that only vim has the issue :)
+    <braunr> i mean, is it that dirty to switch behaviour depending on the
+      calling program ?
+    <youpi> not all select users
+    <braunr> ew :)
+    <youpi> just those which do select({0,0})
+    <braunr> well sure
+    <youpi> braunr: you guessed right :)
+    <braunr> thanks anyway
+    <braunr> it's probably a good thing to do currently
+    <braunr> vim was getting me so mad i was using sshfs lately
+    <youpi> it's better than nothing yes
 
 
 # See Also
diff --git a/open_issues/translators_set_up_by_untrusted_users.mdwn b/open_issues/translators_set_up_by_untrusted_users.mdwn
index 044d5411..1dac130c 100644
--- a/open_issues/translators_set_up_by_untrusted_users.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/translators_set_up_by_untrusted_users.mdwn
@@ -283,7 +283,9 @@ Protection](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/Roadmap/KernelHardening#Hardlin
 do bear some similarity with the issue we're discussing here.
 
 Likewise, Kees Cook, [fs: symlink restrictions on sticky
-directories](http://lwn.net/Articles/468215/), 2011-11-18.
+directories](http://lwn.net/Articles/468215/), 2011-11-18.  [2011-12-06
+update](http://lwn.net/Articles/470891/).  Jake Edge, [Fixing the symlink race
+problem](http://lwn.net/Articles/472071/), 2011-12-14.
 
 
 # IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-08-31
diff --git a/open_issues/trust_the_behavior_of_translators.mdwn b/open_issues/trust_the_behavior_of_translators.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..454c638b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/open_issues/trust_the_behavior_of_translators.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag open_issue_hurd]]
+
+Apart from the issue of [[translators_set_up_by_untrusted_users]], here is
+another problem described.
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-17
+
+(Preceded by the [[memory_object_model_vs_block-level_cache]] discussion.)
+
+    <slpz> what should do Mach with a translator that doesn't clean pages in a
+      reasonable amount of time?
+    <slpz> (I'm talking about pages flushed to a pager by the pageout daemon)
+    <braunr> slpz: i don't know what it should do, but currently, it uses the
+      default pager
+
+[[default_pager]].
+
+    <slpz> braunr: I know, but I was thinking about an alternative, for the
+      case in which a translator in not behaving properly
+    <slpz> perhaps freeing the page, removing the map, and letting it die in a
+      segmentation fault could be an option
+    <braunr> slpz: what if the translator can't do it properly because of
+      system resource exhaustion ?
+    <braunr> (i.e. it doesn't have enough cpu time)
+    <slpz> braunr: that's the biggest question
+    <slpz> let's suppose that Mach selects a page, sends it to the pager for
+      cleaning it up, reinjects the page into the active queue, and later it
+      founds the page again and it's still dirty
+    <slpz> but it needs to free some pages because memory it's really, really
+      scarce
+    <slpz> Linux just sits there waiting for I/O completion for that page
+      (trusts its own drivers)
+    <slpz> but we could be dealing with rogue translator...
+    <braunr> yes
+    <braunr> we may need some sort of "authentication" mechanism for pagers
+    <braunr> so that "system pagers" are trusted and others not
+    <braunr> using something like the device master port but for pagers
+    <braunr> a special port passed to trusted pagers only
+    <slpz> hum... that could be used to workaround the untrusted translator
+      crossing problem while walking a directory tree
+
+[[translators_set_up_by_untrusted_users]].
+
+    <slpz> but I think differentiating between trusted and untrusted
+      translators was rejected for philosophical reasons
+    <slpz> (but I'm not sure)
+    <mcsim> slpz: probably there should be something like oom killer?
+    <mcsim> braunr: even if translator is trusted it could have a bug which
+      make it ask more and more memory, so system have something to do with
+      it. Also, this way TCB is increased, so providing port for trusted
+      translators may hurt security.
+    <mcsim> I've read that Genode has "guarded allocators" which help resource
+      accounting by limiting of memory that could be used. Probably something
+      like this could be used in Hurd to limit translators.
+    <antrik> I don't remember how Viengoos deals with this :-(
+
+[[microkernel/Viengoos]].
+
+    <braunr> mcsim: the main feature lacking in mach is resource accounting :p
+
+[[resource_management_problems]].
+
+    <slpz> mcsim: yes, I think there should be a Hurdish oom killer, paying
+      special attention to external pagers
+
+[[microkernel/mach/external_pager_mechanism]].
+
+    <braunr> the oom killer selects untrusted processes by definition (since
+      pagers are in kernel)
+    <mcsim> slpz: and what is better: oom killer or resource accounting?
+    <mcsim> Under resource accounting I mean mechanism when process can't get
+      more resources than it is allowed.
+    <braunr> resource accounting of course
+    <braunr> but it's not just about that
+    <braunr> really, how does the kernel deal when a pager refuses to honor a
+      paging request ?
+    <braunr> whether it is buggy or malicious
+    <braunr> is it really possible to keep all pagers out of the TCB ?
+    <antrik> mcsim: we definitely want proper resource accounting in the long
+      run. the question is how to deal with the situation that resources are
+      reallocated to other tasks, so some pages have to be freed
+    <antrik> I really don't remember how Neal proposed to deal with this
+    <slpz> mcsim: Better: resource accounting (in which resources are accounted
+      to the user tasks which are requesting them, as in the Viengoos
+      model). Good enough an realistic: oom killer
+    <antrik> I'm not sure an OOM killer for non-system pagers is terribly
+      helpful. in typical use, the vast majority of paging is done by trusted
+      pagers...
+    <antrik> and without proper client resource accounting, there are enough
+      other ways a rogue/broken process can eat system resources -- I'm not
+      convinced that untrusted pagers have a major impact on the overall
+      situation
+    <mcsim> If pager can't free resources because of lack, for example, of cpu
+      time it's priority could be increased to give it second chance to free
+      the page. But if it doesn't manage to free resources it could be killed.
+    <antrik> I think the current approach with default pager taking over is
+      good enough for dealing with untrusted pagers. the real problem are even
+      trusted pager frequently failing to deal with the requests
+    <braunr> i agree with antrik
+    <braunr> and i'm opposed to an oom killer
+    <braunr> it's really not a proper fix for our problems
+    <braunr> mcsim: what if needs 3 attempts before succeeding ?
+    <braunr> +it
+    <braunr> and increasing priority without a good reason (e.g. no priority
+      inversion) leads to unfairness
+    <braunr> we don't want to deal with tricky problems like malicious pagers
+      using that to starve other tasks
+    <mcsim> braunr: this is just temporary decision (for example for half of
+      second of user time), to increase probability that task was killed not
+      because of it lacked resources.
+    <braunr> mcsim: tunables should only affect the efficiency of an operation,
+      not its success
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-19
+
+    <antrik> neal: the specific question is how to ensure processes free memory
+      fast enough when their allocation becomes lower due to resource pressure
+    <neal> antrik: you can't really.
+    <neal> antrik: the memory manager can act on the application's behalf if
+      the application marks pages as discardable or pagable.
+    <neal> antrik: if the memory manager makes an upcall to the application to
+      free some memory and it doesn't, you have to penalize it.
+    <neal> antrik: You shouldn't the process like exokernel
+    <neal> antrik: It's the developers fault, not the user's
+    <neal> antrik: What you need are controls that ensure that the user stays
+      in control
+    <neal> ...shouldn't *kill* the process...
+    <antrik> neal: well, how can I penalize a process that eats to much
+      physical memory?
+    <neal> in the future, you don't give it as much slack memory
+    <antrik> marking as pagable means a system pager will push them to the swap
+      partition?
+    <antrik> ah, OK
+    <neal> yes
+    <neal> and you page it more aggressively, i.e., you don't give it a chance
+      to free memory
+    <neal> The situation is:
+    <neal> you have memory pressure
+    <neal> you choose a victim process and ask it to free memory
+    <neal> now, you need to wait
+    <neal> if you wait and it doesn't free memory, you give it bad karma
+    <neal> if you wait and it frees memory, you're good
+    <neal> but during that window, a bad process can delay recovery
+    <neal> so, in the future, we give bad processes less time
+    <neal> but, we still send a message asking it to free memory
+    <neal> we just hope it was a bug
+    <antrik> so the major difference to the approach we have in Mach is that
+      instead of just redeclaring some pages as anonymous memory that will be
+      paged to swap by the default pager eventually if the pager in question
+      fails to handle them properly, we wait some time for the process to free
+      (any) memory, and only then start paging out some of it's pages to swap
+    <neal> there's also discardable memory
+    <antrik> hm... there is some notion of "precious" pages in Mach... I wonder
+      whether that is also used to decide about discarding pages instead of
+      pushing them to swap?
+    <neal> antrik: A precious page is ro data that shouldn't be dropped
+    <antrik> ah
+    <antrik> but I guess that means non-precious RO data (such as a cache) can
+      be dropped without asking the pager, right?
+    <neal> yes
+    <antrik> I wonder whether such a karma system can be introduced in Mach as
+      well to deal with problematic pagers
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-21
+
+    <neal> antrik: One of the main differences between Mach and Viengoos is
+      that in Mach servers are responsible for managing memory whereas in
+      Viengoos applications are primarily responsible for managing memory.
diff --git a/open_issues/xattr.mdwn b/open_issues/xattr.mdwn
index 40222f78..558c93b7 100644
--- a/open_issues/xattr.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/xattr.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011, 2012 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
@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
 
 [[!tag open_issue_glibc open_issue_hurd]]
 
-IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-06-01
+This task is listed as a [[Google Summer of Code project
+idea|community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr]].
+
+IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-06-01:
 
     <gnu_srs> Another thing: the lsattr and chattr programs seems to be bogus
       on Hurd. Are they present since they are part of e2fsprogs?
@@ -34,3 +37,9 @@ If interested in working on this, talk to [[tschwinge]], and see these resources
   * <http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg07260.html>,
     <http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg07259.html>,
     <http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg07261.html>
+
+
+IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2012-03-18:
+
+    <pinotree> notes to self: it seems our ext2 driver comes from linux 2.3.42
+      or so, and in linux 2.5.46 ext2/ext3 get xattr and acl support
diff --git a/open_issues/xorg_porting.mdwn b/open_issues/xorg_porting.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5f540e44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/open_issues/xorg_porting.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 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 title="X.Org Porting"]]
+
+[[!tag open_issue_porting]]
+
+See the list of [Hurd-related X.Org project
+ideas](http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Hurd_Porting).
diff --git a/public_hurd_boxen/xen_handling.mdwn b/public_hurd_boxen/xen_handling.mdwn
index 47d92c43..d4e33ce9 100644
--- a/public_hurd_boxen/xen_handling.mdwn
+++ b/public_hurd_boxen/xen_handling.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2012 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
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ by typing in `host=flubber`, for example, will be enough to get access to
 that machine's console.
 
 /!\ TODO: How does one get the environment variables `COLUMNS` and `LINES` set
-properly when using `xm console`?  This is relevant for everything using
-`(n)curses` -- for interactive console applications.  Using `export COLUMNS=143
-LINES=44` does work, but is a manual process.
+properly when using `xm console`?  According to Samuel, *you don't, the xen
+console doesn't have the notion of terminal size*.  This is relevant for
+everything using `(n)curses` -- for interactive console applications.  Using
+`export COLUMNS=143 LINES=44` does work, but is a manual process.
diff --git a/shortcuts.mdwn b/shortcuts.mdwn
index fd4d4dee..5afa106e 100644
--- a/shortcuts.mdwn
+++ b/shortcuts.mdwn
@@ -97,3 +97,10 @@ ikiwiki will include your shortcut in the standard underlay.
 ## Notmuch'n'Gmane.
 
   * [[!shortcut name=message-id url="http://thread.gmane.org/%s" desc="""`id:"%s"`"""]]
+
+
+## sourceware
+
+  * [[!shortcut name=sourceware_bug
+    url="http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=%s"
+    desc="sourceware.org bug #%s"]]
diff --git a/toolchain/cross-gnu.mdwn b/toolchain/cross-gnu.mdwn
index 280569ae..451e9d44 100644
--- a/toolchain/cross-gnu.mdwn
+++ b/toolchain/cross-gnu.mdwn
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ guarantee is given.  Always the preferred version is listed first.
         The sources are rooted in `binutils-2_20-branch/src/`.  Also use the above
         commands for updating, instead of the usual `cvs update`.
 
-      * Release of the 2.20 series from <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/>
+      * Release 2.22 or later from <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/>
         should also be fine.
 
   * [[`src/gcc`|gcc]]