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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/file_locking.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/file_locking.mdwn index ebb322f1..a368a7a8 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/file_locking.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/file_locking.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2018 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 @@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="Fix and Complete File Locking Support"]] +[[!template id=highlight text="""/!\ Obsolete /!\ + +--- + +This is no longer valid as a Google Summer of Code project."""]] + + Over the years, [[UNIX]] has acquired a host of different file locking mechanisms. Some of them work on the Hurd, while others are buggy or only partially implemented. This breaks many applications. @@ -26,8 +33,6 @@ locking works on the Hurd. Only general programming skills are required. A preliminary patch is [[!GNU_Savannah_patch 332 desc="available"]]. -Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) - Exercise: Find one of the existing issues, either by looking at the task/bug filed on [[open_issues/file_locking]], on trackers on savannah, or by trying things out yourself; and take a go at it. |