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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2012-05-24 23:08:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com> | 2012-05-24 23:08:09 +0200 |
| commit | 2910b7c5b1d55bc304344b584a25ea571a9075fb (patch) | |
| tree | bfbfbc98d4c0e205d2726fa44170a16e8421855e /community/gsoc/project_ideas/libcap.mdwn | |
| parent | 35b719f54c96778f571984065579625bc9f15bf5 (diff) | |
Prepare toolchain/logs/master branch.
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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libcap.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libcap.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 18c49c48..00000000 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libcap.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,41 +0,0 @@ -[[!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 -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="Implementing libcap"]] - -libcap is a library providing the API to access POSIX capabilities. These allow -giving various kinds of specific privileges to individual users, without giving -them full root permissions. - -Although the Hurd design should facilitate implementing such features in a quite -natural fashion, there is no support for POSIX capabilities yet. As a -consequence, libcap is not available on the Hurd, and thus various packages -using it can not be easily built in Debian GNU/Hurd. - -The first goal of this project is implementing a dummy libcap, which doesn't -actually do anything useful yet, but returns appropriate status messages, so -program using the library can be built and run on Debian GNU/Hurd. - -Having this, actual support for at least some of the capabilities should be -implemented, as time permits. This will require some digging into Hurd -internals. - -Some knowledge of POSIX capabilities will need to be obtained, and for the -latter part also some knowledge about the Hurd architecture. This project is -probably doable without previous experience with either, though. - -David Hedberg applied for this project in 2010, -and though he didn't go through with it, -he fleshed out many [[details]]. - -Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) - -Exercise: Make libcap compile on Debian GNU/Hurd. It doesn't need to actually -do anything yet -- just make it build at all for now. |