Merge community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs into hurd/translator/procfs.

3 files changed, 34 insertions, 49 deletions

diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libgtop.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libgtop.mdwn
index 14304de2..8eb6953e 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libgtop.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libgtop.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010 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
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ libgtop is a library used by many applications (especially GNOME applications)
 to abstract the system-specific methods for obtaining information about the
 current state of the system -- processes running, system load etc.
 
-A [[Linux-compatible_procfs|madhusudancs]] implementation has been created
-during GSoC 2008, and should cover a large part of the functionality of
+A Linux-compatible [[hurd/translator/procfs]] is available
+and should cover a large part of the functionality of
 libgtop. However, not all necessary information is exported via /proc (even on
 Linux); there are some bits still missing in the Hurd procfs implementation;
 and there are a couple of bugs that need to be fixed to make it fully usable.
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index d4760aae..00000000
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 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 title="procfs"]]
-
-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`,
-`htop`, `gtop`, `killall`, `pkill`, ...)
-
-Instead of porting all these tools to use [[hurd/libps]] (Hurd's official method for
-accessing process information), they could be made to run out of the box, by
-implementing a Linux-compatible `/proc` filesystem for the Hurd.
-
-The goal is to implement all `/proc` functionality needed for the various process
-management tools to work.  (On Linux, the `/proc` filesystem is used also for
-debugging purposes; but this is highly system-specific anyways, so there is
-probably no point in trying to duplicate this functionality as well...)
-
-The [[existing_partially_working_procfs_implementation|hurd/translator/procfs]]
-can serve as a starting point, but needs to be largely rewritten.  (It should
-use [[hurd/libnetfs]] rather than [[hurd/libtrivfs]]; the data format needs to
-change to be more Linux-compatible; and it needs adaptation to newer system
-interfaces.)
-
-This project requires learning [[hurd/translator]] programming, and
-understanding some of the internals of process management in the Hurd.  It
-should not be too hard coding-wise; and the task is very nicely defined by the
-existing Linux `/proc` interface -- no design considerations necessary.
-
-**Note**: We already have several applications for this task.
-
-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.
diff --git a/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn
index 404a6764..0247aa33 100644
--- a/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010 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
@@ -8,8 +9,37 @@ 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]]."]]"""]]
 
+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`,
+`htop`, `gtop`, `killall`, `pkill`, ...)
+
+Instead of porting all these tools to use [[libps]] (Hurd's official method for
+accessing process information), they could be made to run out of the box, by
+implementing a Linux-compatible `/proc` filesystem for the Hurd.
+
+The goal is to implement all `/proc` functionality needed for the various process
+management tools to work.  (On Linux, the `/proc` filesystem is used also for
+debugging purposes; but this is highly system-specific anyways, so there is
+probably no point in trying to duplicate this functionality as well...)
+
+*Status*: Madhusudan.C.S has implemented a new, fully functional [[procfs|madhusudancs]] for
+[[GSoC 2008|community/gsoc/2008]].
+
+In August 2010, Jérémie Koenig [published another, new
+version](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00165.html).
+
+
+# Internals
+
+
+## Old Implementation from [[open_issues/HurdExtras]]
+
 <http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#procfs>
 
+
+## Files opened by various tools
+
   * [[`ps`|procps]]
   * [[`top`|top]]
   * [[`htop`|htop]]