[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 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 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]]."]]"""]] [[!meta date="2009-10-01 11:52 UTC"]] A month of the Hurd: *Successful Google Summer of Code project: unionmount*. [[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=full_news text="Details."]][[!toggleable id=full_news text="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]]""" else="[[!paste id=full_news]]"]] [[!cut id="full_news" text=""" > This month saw the successful completion of the Google Summer of Code 2009, > for which [[Sergiu Ivanov|scolobb]] created a > [[unionmount_translator|hurd/translator/unionmount]]. > His work allows you to simply union one directory or translator into another one, > so you see the files of both of them side by side. > > He was mentored by Olaf Buddenhagen and both are now working on polishing the code > and extending the namespace based translator selection ([[hurd/translator/nsmux]]) which allows you to > read a node with a selected translator by simply appending `,,` to its name. > > That aside, we saw the usual steady rate of enhancement discussions, as well > as bugs getting fixed: X server crashing, preventing that GCC versions after > 4.2 optimize too much, etc. """]]