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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libgtop.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libgtop.mdwn index 8eb6953e..41897a1f 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libgtop.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libgtop.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010, 2012 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 @@ -10,6 +11,10 @@ is included in the section entitled [[!meta title="Porting libgtop"]] +/!\ On 2012-05-05 Andjos reported (commit +web.git:8061106f2d1f15fa9a54947bc45d4cba68d89bba) that this task has already +been completed. + 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. diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/namespace-based_translator_selection/discussion.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/namespace-based_translator_selection/discussion.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..befd680a --- /dev/null +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/namespace-based_translator_selection/discussion.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 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]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_hurd]] + + +# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-04-22 + + <youpi> btw, I was wondering, when working on namespace mangling, did they + think about automatitioning ? + <youpi> autopartitioning, I meant + <youpi> i.e. with a foo.img file, open foo.img,,part1 + <braunr> what are you referring to with namespace mangling + <youpi> and voila + <youpi> I don't remember the exact term they used + <braunr> you mean there is a hurd library that parses names and can direct + to different services depending on part of the name ? + <youpi> namespace-based_translator_selection + <youpi> yes + <braunr> i thought it only handled directories + <braunr> well, the classical path representation + * civodul finds it ugly + <youpi> civodul: because of potential conflict, and the not-too-nice ",," + part? + <youpi> actually I wonder whether using directory access would be nicer + <youpi> i.e. you have a foo.gz, just open foo.gz/gunzip to get the unzipped + content + <youpi> and for foo.img.gz, open foo.img.gz/gunzip/part/1 + <civodul> youpi: because of the interpretation of special chars in file + names + <civodul> users should be free to use any character they like in file names + <civodul> foo.gz/gunzip looks nicer to me + <youpi> ok, so we agree + <youpi> that said, the user could choose the separator + <youpi> the namespace can be not run by root for everybody, but just for + your shell, run by yourself + <antrik> civodul: the user can't use any character anyways... '/' and '\0' + are reserved :-P + <civodul> antrik: '/' isn't quite reserved on the Hurd :-) + <civodul> you could implement dir_lookup such that it does something + special about it + <civodul> (server-side) + <antrik> civodul: as for overloading '/', although I haven't thought it + through entirely, I guess that would work for nodes that present as files + normally. however, it would *not* work for directory nodes + <antrik> which would be quite a serious limitation IMHO + <antrik> I can think of various kinds of useful directory translators + <antrik> what's more, one of the main use cases I originally had in mind is + a policy filter + <antrik> you could pass a directory name with a appropriate filter applied + to tar for example, so it wouldn't try to follow any translators + <antrik> I don't see why taking an obscure prefix like ,, would be much of + a problem in practice anyways + <antrik> (also, it doesn't strictly prevent the user from having such file + names... you just need to escape it if accessing such files through the + namespace multiplexer. though admittedly that would need some special + handling in *some* programs to work properly) |