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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn index 0434ab9c..e6b484af 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/procfs.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2011 Free Software Foundation, +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable @@ -6,11 +6,20 @@ 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]]."]]"""]] +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="procfs"]] +[!] Madhusudan.C.S has implemented a new, fully functional +[[procfs|madhusudancs]] as a [[GSoC 2008 project|2008]]. + +[!] This was not the end of the story: [[jkoenig's +`procfs`|hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig]] is yet another re-written and +improved version. + +--- + 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`, @@ -41,12 +50,3 @@ existing Linux `/proc` interface -- no design considerations necessary. 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. - ---- - -Note that this was not the end of the story: [[jkoenig's -`procfs`|hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig]] is yet another re-written and -improved version. |