New GSoC task: Audio grabbing

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+[[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]]."]]"""]]
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+[[meta title="Implement CD Audio Grabbing"]]
+
+The Hurd presently has only support for CD-ROMs, but not for audio extraction
+("grabbing"). As a result, cdparanoia (and other extraction
+libraries/utilities) are not available; and many other packages depending on
+these can't be built in Debian GNU/Hurd either.
+
+Adding support for audio extraction shouldn't be too hard. It requires
+implementing a number of additional ioctl()s, generating the appropriate ATAPI
+commands.
+
+The goal of this task is fully working cdparanoia in Debian GNU/Hurd. It will
+require digging a bit into Hurd internals and ATAPI commands, but should be
+quite doable without any previous knowledge about either.
+
+Possible mentors:
+
+Exercise: Look at the implementation of the existing ioctl()s, and try to find
+something that could be easily added/improved. If you don't see anything
+obvious, talk to us about a different exercise task.