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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libgtop.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libgtop.mdwn index 14304de2..8eb6953e 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libgtop.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libgtop.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!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 @@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ 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 +A Linux-compatible [[hurd/translator/procfs]] is available +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. diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index d4760aae..00000000 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 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="procfs"]] - -Although there is no standard (POSIX or other) for the layout of the `/proc` -pseudo-filesystem, it turned out a very useful facility in GNU/Linux and other -systems, and many tools concerned with process management use it. (`ps`, `top`, -`htop`, `gtop`, `killall`, `pkill`, ...) - -Instead of porting all these tools to use [[hurd/libps]] (Hurd's official method for -accessing process information), they could be made to run out of the box, by -implementing a Linux-compatible `/proc` filesystem for the Hurd. - -The goal is to implement all `/proc` functionality needed for the various process -management tools to work. (On Linux, the `/proc` filesystem is used also for -debugging purposes; but this is highly system-specific anyways, so there is -probably no point in trying to duplicate this functionality as well...) - -The [[existing_partially_working_procfs_implementation|hurd/translator/procfs]] -can serve as a starting point, but needs to be largely rewritten. (It should -use [[hurd/libnetfs]] rather than [[hurd/libtrivfs]]; the data format needs to -change to be more Linux-compatible; and it needs adaptation to newer system -interfaces.) - -This project requires learning [[hurd/translator]] programming, and -understanding some of the internals of process management in the Hurd. It -should not be too hard coding-wise; and the task is very nicely defined by the -existing Linux `/proc` interface -- no design considerations necessary. - -**Note**: We already have several applications for this task. - -Possible mentors: Olaf Buddenhagen (antrik) - -Exercise: Add or fix one piece in the existing procfs translator. - -*Status*: Madhusudan.C.S has implemented a new, fully functional [[procfs|madhusudancs]] for -GSoC 2008. He is still working on some outstanding issues. diff --git a/community/meetings/ghm2010.mdwn b/community/meetings/ghm2010.mdwn index b5cb7311..e216bfe4 100644 --- a/community/meetings/ghm2010.mdwn +++ b/community/meetings/ghm2010.mdwn @@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!ymlfront data=""" -walfield_hurd: "video of presentation by Neal Walfield: [*GNU/Hurd: It's About Freedom (Or: Why you should care)*](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2010/GNU-Hurd_-_Its_About_Freedom,_Or_Why_you_should_care.ogv)" +walfield_hurd: "video of the presentation by Neal Walfield: [*GNU/Hurd: It's About Freedom (Or: Why you should care)*](http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2010/GNU-Hurd_-_Its_About_Freedom,_Or_Why_you_should_care.ogv)" """]] diff --git a/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn b/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn index 404a6764..bc22530f 100644 --- a/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator/procfs.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 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 @@ -8,8 +9,41 @@ 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]]."]]"""]] +Although there is no standard (POSIX or other) for the layout of the `/proc` +pseudo-filesystem, it turned out a very useful facility in GNU/Linux and other +systems, and many tools concerned with process management use it. (`ps`, `top`, +`htop`, `gtop`, `killall`, `pkill`, ...) + +Instead of porting all these tools to use [[libps]] (Hurd's official method for +accessing process information), they could be made to run out of the box, by +implementing a Linux-compatible `/proc` filesystem for the Hurd. + +The goal is to implement all `/proc` functionality needed for the various process +management tools to work. (On Linux, the `/proc` filesystem is used also for +debugging purposes; but this is highly system-specific anyways, so there is +probably no point in trying to duplicate this functionality as well...) + +*Status*: Madhusudan.C.S has implemented a new, fully functional [[procfs|madhusudancs]] for +[[GSoC 2008|community/gsoc/2008]]. + +# New Implementation by Jérémie Koenig + +In August 2010, Jérémie Koenig [published another, new +version](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-08/msg00165.html). +This can be found in <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/procfs.git/>, +branch *jkoenig/master*. + + +# Internals + + +## Old Implementation from [[open_issues/HurdExtras]] + <http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#procfs> + +## Files opened by various tools + * [[`ps`|procps]] * [[`top`|top]] * [[`htop`|htop]] diff --git a/source_repositories.mdwn b/source_repositories.mdwn index 41ca37be..8729e48b 100644 --- a/source_repositories.mdwn +++ b/source_repositories.mdwn @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ is included in the section entitled * [[glibc]] * [[incubator]] + * [[hurd/translator/procfs]] * ... ## Branches |