New GSoC task: Improving Perl support

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+Perl is available on the Hurd, but there are quite a lot of test suite
+failures. These could be caused by problems in the system-specific
+implementation bits of Perl, and/or shortcomings in the actual system
+functionality which Perl depends on.
+
+The goal of this project is to fix all of these problems if possible, or at
+least some of them. Some issues might require digging quite deep into Hurd
+internals, while others are probably easy to fix.
+
+Note that while some Perl knowledge is probably necessary to understand what
+the test suite failures are about, the actual work necessary to fix these
+issues is mostly C programming -- in the implementation of Perl and/or the
+Hurd.
+
+Possible mentors:
+
+Exercise: Make some improvement to Perl support on the Hurd, e.g. fixing one of
+the known test suite failures.