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<nexussfan>Now that QEMU is ported to Hurd, should the qemu source package enable hurd arch support?
<sam_>don't think that landed upstream yet
<nexussfan>Oh.
<nexussfan>Yeah, looks like it
<damo22>i will bump the qemu people about it
<gasc>Hello everyone, I would like to contribute to this project, I have seen the https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/contributing.html and the want for developers, also, that sometimes there are meetings around here (if I'm not mistaken) when these meetings happen?
<damo22>are you a C programmer?
<gasc>Yes
<damo22>welcome
<damo22>there are no official meetings, its pretty adhoc in this channel
<damo22>i suggest grabbing the disk image and booting a debian hurd preinstalled in qemu to get started
<gasc>Sure, I will start with doing that now, I just wanted to make sure about the meetings but I will make sure to be around here on my spare time
<damo22>timezones are sometimes an issue, so you need to be willing to wait a while for answers here
<gasc>Sure, that's not a problem for me
<gasc>Thank you for answering, I will start my research/reading now
<damo22>hurd is mostly working at this point, but in general it needs more drivers for hardware
<rrq>and I wish for a tap interface :)
<damo22>ok ive alerted someone for qemu patches
<etno>Any idea why `ports_manage_port_operations_one_thread(..., 1000)` would not be returning from time to time ?
<etno>I mean, I expect it to return when there is nothing to do. But a breakpoint right after it is never triggered.
<Darelelve>etno: The ports_manage_port_operations_one_thread function states that this is unsafe for most translators and the timeout is pre-set to zero.
<etno>Oh, I didn't notice this warning in the header file. Is the multi-threaded variation the preferred one ? Darelelve
<Darelelve>etno: I saw this warning in manage-one-thread.c. There's also a similar warning in manage-multithread.c, so it's hard to say which is more correct.
<Darelelve>I'm a newbie myself :)
<etno>Oh 😅 I see
<etno>(about the comments, I mean)