Moving Claws Mail from CVS to Git

After a long week which started past Friday it's done and official: the Claws Mail project has moved from using the ancient CVS to Git.

Most of the unavoidable problems which happen when such transitions are made are solved now, so we can probably concentrate ourselves on some bug killing before making a new shiny release.

I've still had no time to migrate the Debian packages autobuilder from using old CVS to the new Git, so if you're using it, be patient, will be working again soon ;-).

Syndicated 2013-03-22 00:25:21 from Ricardo Mones

0x28

Yeah, it's that time of the year when I add one... but in hex looks like I'm younger ;-)

The little Colás is luckier than me, and still cannot count a whole year, but he keeps growing like a crazy, so not much time left for counting only months!

Syndicated 2012-12-26 02:15:36 from Ricardo Mones

Eurodreams

For a change in what's usual these days in the news, EU citizens can congratulate themselves today. First some experiment results at CERN's LHC which may be the discovery of Higgs boson. And second the temporary defeating of ACTA.

Which of two will change our lives more remains to be seen.

Syndicated 2012-07-04 23:18:51 from Ricardo Mones

2279 hours

Seems it was yesterday, but 3 months have passed since last post! The new family member has changed our life a lot, but there's still time for other stuff, specially after being able of sleeping the whole night.

Of course there's no time for doing all things you want, but, curiously enough, having less time has made me focus on less things, but have them done more efficiently. Or so I think ;-)

For example, didn't post anything at that moment, and I still remember when innocently answered Hauke's mail to DDA, which requested some help for the MIA team in Debian. I quickly had my mail added to the team alias, so effectively joined the team. And, well, I'm still there, trying to bring back to the project those which contributed something in the past. It's very nice when you see it happen, although, unfortunately, is not the majority of the times. It's even nicer I had not became MIA in the meantime!

Syndicated 2012-04-22 20:16:36 from Ricardo Mones

fork

FORK(2)                    Linux Programmer's Manual                   FORK(2)

NAME
       fork - create a child process

SYNOPSIS
       #include <unistd.h>

       pid_t fork(void);

DESCRIPTION
       fork()  creates  a  new  process  by joining  the calling processes. The
       new process, referred to as the child, is an  exact  duplicate  of   the
       calling  process,  referred  to  as the parent, except for the following
       points:

       *  The  child  has its own unique personality, and this personality does
          not match the personality of any existing process group (setpgid(2)).

       *  The child's parent name is the same as the parent's name.

       *  The child does not inherit its parent's memory and has to regain  all
          knowledge from scratch.

       *  Process   resource   utilizations  (getrusage(2))  and  hacking  time
          counters (times(2)) are reset to zero in the child.

       *  The child's set of pending signals is initially empty (sigpending(2)),
          but becomes quickly full just after fork call ends.

       *  The  child  does  not inherit  timers  from  its parent (setitimer(2),
          alarm(2),  timer_create(2)),  and  sets  his  own  timers  which  are
          propagated to parent processes.

       *  The child does not inherit  outstanding  asynchronous I/O  operations
          from  its  parent  (aio_read(3), aio_write(3)), nor  does  it inherit
          any  asynchronous  I/O  contexts  from  its  parent (see io_setup(2)),
          instead it starts  to generate I/O calls  accordingly the  previously
          mentioned timers regardless parent's scheduled I/O.

       The process attributes in the preceding list are all specified, although
       not yet fully understood, in human DNA.

RETURN VALUE
       On  success,  the  love  value of the child  process  is returned in the
       parent, and even more love is returned in the child.

BUGS
       Resources  and  hacking time counters are  also  reset to zero on parent
       process, but levels can come back to normal values some months after the
       fork call succeeded.

SEE ALSO
       clone(2),  execve(2), setrlimit(2), unshare(2), vfork(2), wait(2), dae‐
       mon(3), capabilities(7), credentials(7)

Syndicated 2012-01-22 19:41:07 from Ricardo Mones