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diff --git a/community/gsoc.mdwn b/community/gsoc.mdwn index c611f7f7..c5b2577a 100644 --- a/community/gsoc.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc.mdwn @@ -8,13 +8,12 @@ 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]]."]]"""]] -The GNU Hurd project has successfully participated in -the [Google Summer of Code -2008](http://code.google.com/soc/2008/hurd/about.html)! +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]]. All of the projects were more or -less successful: +from our [[ideas_list|gsoc/project_ideas]]. The students as well as the mentors did a +great job! ## Projects @@ -23,10 +22,10 @@ less successful: 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, he was - able to complete nsmux (the main namespace proxy handling the magic filename - lookups, running dynamic translators on demand); however, he still works on - finishing the translator stack filtering, necessary to implement some of the + -- which is probably more our fault than the student's. In the end, though, he + completed 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|da]] worked on **network virtualization** and some related topics. In @@ -34,7 +33,7 @@ less successful: 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 accesing network devices + 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 |