summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn')
-rw-r--r--community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn24
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
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.