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A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -The GNU Hurd project has successfully participated in the -[Google Summer of Code 2008](http://code.google.com/soc/2008/hurd/about.html)! - -All in all we had five students working on a diverse selection of five projects -from our [[ideas_list|gsoc/project_ideas]], and the students as well as the mentors -did a great job! - -# Projects - -* [[Sergiu_Ivanov|scolobb]] worked on **namespace-based translator selection**. - Although he wasn't an official (sponsored) GSoC student, he worked on his - project quite as steady as the other students (except for a two week - vacation). The project however was hampered by various misunderstandings, - wrong assumptions, and several major redesigns during the course of the work - -- which is probably more our fault than the student's. In the end, though, he - completed [[hurd/translator/nsmux]] (the main namespace proxy handling the - magic filename - lookups, running dynamic translators on demand); he still works on - finishing the translator stack filtering necessary to implement some of the - desired functionality (accessing files while skipping existing translators). - -* [[Zheng_Da|zhengda]] worked on **network virtualization** and some related topics. In - spite of many open design question in the beginning, he did a lot of good - work -- finishing not only the ethernet multiplexer and filter translators, - which form the core of his project, but also a glibc patch to allow - overriding the standard socket servers with environment variables; the - devnode translator and a pfinet patch to allow accessing network devices - through device files; support for setting the network device in promiscuous - mode in gnumach; a pfinet patch to use BPF for the packet filtering instead - of the old Mach packet filters, and also to set a proper filter rule that - really only passes the required packages to pfinet; a patch for the subhurd - boot program to allow giving arbitrary virtual devices to the subhurd; and a - proxy for the proc server, which allows running unmodified programs with a - pseudo device master port instead of the real one -- providing some of the - subhurd functionality without having to start a complete new system instance. - He is still working on fixing some remaining issues, and on allowing subhurds - to be run by normal users. - -* [[Flavio_Cruz|flaviocruz]] was working on **Lisp bindings for the Hurd interfaces**, - and did a great job: Not only did he implement bindings for all low-level - interfaces as well as higher-level libraries for easy creation of translators - and other hurdish programs, but also a whole bunch of sample - translators based on these bindings, some of them quite useful on their own - account. He also fixed a few bugs in the Hurd he found along the way. - Presently he is doing some further improvements, like additional abstractions - and more sample translators. - -* [Andrei Barbu](http://0xab.com) was working on - **porting a kernel instrumentation framework** like dtrace or SystemTap. He - implemented the necessary kernel infrastructure (and some nice general - improvements along the way), making it possible to create tracing programs by - hand; however, only at the end of the summer he realized that SystemTap is - really extremely Linux-specific (while dtrace was ruled out already at the - setout because of licensing problems), so there is no nice frontend yet. - Unfortunately he was not able to continue work beyond the official deadline - because of his PhD. - -* [[Madhusudan.C.S|madhusudancs]] was working on a **new procfs implementation**, to - allow running existing programs based on Linux procfs out of the box. He - managed to implement all the necessary information bits, so the most - important procfs programs now work; and also fixed the procps program suite - to actually build on the Hurd. There are still some major bugs left, though. - Aside from fixing the remaining bugs, he now works on adding some more - information bits that are nontrivial to implement, and on fixing libgtop to - work for us as well. - - -# IRC meetings - -Since the selection of the students on we have had regular, weekly GSoC IRC -meetings, see the [[IRC#regular_meetings]] page for details. - -Minutes from some of the meetings: [[2008/minutes-2008-04-25]], -[[2008/minutes-2008-05-02]], [[2008/minutes-2008-05-16]] - -We decided to keep up the meetings after the end of official GSoC, so things -can be properly wrapped up for upstream submission; but also because the -students want to continue discussing progress with their ongoing work, -problems, future directions etc. |