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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn index 803a5a05..7b8f9262 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn @@ -95,3 +95,4 @@ will assist you as well as we can. [[inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] [[inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/debian_installer" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] [[inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] +[[inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/libgtop" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libgtop.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libgtop.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a8a469a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libgtop.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 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="Porting libgtop"]] + +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 +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. + +The goal of this project is a fully functional libgtop in Debian GNU/Hurd. Some +application(s) using it also need to be ported, e.g. gnome-system-monitor. + +Some bits of this work are easy, others need some digging into Hurd internals. +This task doesn't require any specific previous knowlegde (besides of general +C/UNIX programming skills of course); but during the course of the project, +some knowlegde about Hurd internals will have to be obtained, along with a bit +of Debian stuff. + +Possible mentors: + +Exercise: Fix one of the shortcomings in the existing procfs implementation. |