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@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ runtime. Or implementing a unit testing framework that explicitely checks
locking in various code paths. (The latter could serve as a template for
implementing unit checks in other parts of the Hurd codebase...)
+(A systematic code review would probably suffice to find the existing locking
+issues; but it wouldn't document the work in terms of actual code produced, and
+thus it's not suitable for a GSoC project...)
+
This task requires experience with debugging locking issues in multithreaded
applications.