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authorantrik <antrik@users.sf.net>2009-03-19 17:13:27 +0100
committerantrik <antrik@users.sf.net>2009-03-20 06:04:46 +0100
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
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+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
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+[[meta title="Porting libgtop"]]
+
+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
+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.
+
+The goal of this project is a fully functional libgtop in Debian GNU/Hurd. Some
+application(s) using it also need to be ported, e.g. gnome-system-monitor.
+
+Some bits of this work are easy, others need some digging into Hurd internals.
+This task doesn't require any specific previous knowlegde (besides of general
+C/UNIX programming skills of course); but during the course of the project,
+some knowlegde about Hurd internals will have to be obtained, along with a bit
+of Debian stuff.
+
+Possible mentors:
+
+Exercise: Fix one of the shortcomings in the existing procfs implementation.