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| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/lexical_dot-dot.mdwn | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/lexical_dot-dot.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/lexical_dot-dot.mdwn index 860add33..55d00337 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/lexical_dot-dot.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/lexical_dot-dot.mdwn @@ -33,5 +33,8 @@ See also [[GNU_Savannah_bug 17133]]. Possible mentors: ? -Exercise: Make some modification to the name lookup mechanism. (More specific -suggestions welcome... :-) ) +Exercise: This project requires changes to the name lookup mechanism in the +Hurd-related glibc parts, as well as the Hurd servers. Thus, the exercise task +should involve hacking glibc or Hurd servers, or even both. Fixing the bug in +the client-side nfs translator (/hurd/nfs) that makes "rmdir foo/" fail while +"rmdir foo" works, seems a good candidate. |