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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ 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]]."]]"""]]
-[[!meta title="Fix File Locking"]]
+[[!meta title="Fix and Complete File Locking Support"]]
Over the years, [[UNIX]] has aquired a host of different file locking mechanisms.
Some of them work on the Hurd, while others are buggy or only partially
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ implemented. This breaks many applications.
The goal is to make all file locking mechanisms work properly. This requires
finding all existing shortcomings (through systematic testing and/or checking
for known issues in the bug tracker and mailing list archives), and fixing
-them.
+them. The biggest missing feature is record locking, i.e. the lockf variant,
+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.