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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 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="Improve the GDB Port for GNU Hurd"]]
+
+[[!tag open_issue_gdb]]
+
+[[/GDB]] is available and working on GNU Hurd.  However, there are some bugs
+and there is missing functionality compared to a port targeting the Linux
+kernel ([[tag/Open_Issue_GDB]], [diff of
+testresults](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/web.git/tree/gdb/test.diff?h=toolchain/logs/master)).
+For example, there is no port of [[open_issues/gdb/gdbserver]] available yet.
+Identifying (together with the mentors), and then addressing one or a few of
+these items is the goal of this project.
+
+Required knowledge: Have an understanding about how GDB works generally, how it
+interacts with an operating system.  Some GNU Mach and Hurd knowledge will have
+to be acquired while working on the project.
+
+Possible mentors: [[Thomas Schwinge (tschwinge)|tschwinge]].
+
+Exercise: Begin writing a document to describe how the GNU Hurd port of GDB
+works internally, how it interacts with the Hurd system, and compare it to a
+port targeting the Linux kernel.  Fix one of the Open Issues or testsuite
+failures.