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[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013,
-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+2014, 2015 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
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ concepts|microkernel/mach/concepts]], [[Hurd's concepts|hurd/concepts]], the
*[[hurd/critique]]*. Until you can understand and do the basic exercises
listed there, you won't be able to significantly contribute to the Hurd.
+You can also have a look at the
+[starting guide talk](https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/hurd/).
+
For more reading resources, please see these web pages, for example,
[[Hurd_documentation|hurd/documentation]] and
[[Mach_documentation|microkernel/mach/documentation]] for links to a bunch of
@@ -80,6 +83,8 @@ Here is a list of small hacks, which can serve as entries into the Hurd code for
people who would like to dive into the code but just lack a "somewhere to begin
with".
+* Add `UTIME_NOW` and `UTIME_OMIT`. It is a matter of taking the BSD values, add the `#define`s to the proper header, and implement the support in `*_S_file_utimes` functions.
+ See also [[!debbug 762677]].
* Some translators do not support [[hurd/fsysopts]], i.e. support for the
file_get_fs_options and fsys_set_options RPCs.
* Extend `device_read`/`device_write` into supporting > 2TiB disk sizes.
@@ -94,10 +99,6 @@ which exposes the partitions of the disk image, using parted, and
the parted-based storeio (`settrans -c foos1 /hurd/storeio -T typed
part:1:file:/home/samy/tmp/foo`). This would be libnetfs-based.
* Write [[virtio drivers for KVM|open_issues/virtio#KVM]].
-* Port valgrind. There is a whole
-[[GSoC proposal|community/gsoc/project_ideas/valgrind ]] about this, but the
-basic port could be small.
-* Add `/proc/$pid/maps`. `vminfo` already has this kind of information, it's a matter of making procfs do the same. [[!GNU_Savannah_bug 32770]]
* Move the [[mount/umount|open_issues/glibc#mount]] logic from
`utils/{,u}mount.c` into [[glibc]].
* Fix [[`/proc/self`|hurd/translator/procfs/jkoenig/discussion#self]].
@@ -105,6 +106,8 @@ Look at `[glibc]/hurd/lookup-retry.c` for how [[`FS_RETRY_MAGICAL`
lookups|hurd/interface/dir_lookup]] work.
* Add a tool to trace system calls, by using gnumach's Syscall-Emulation, see <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/gnumach-doc/Syscall-Emulation.html>
* Improve our [[FUSE library|hurd/libfuse]].
+* Add a relatime or lazytime option to ext2fs.
+* Fix our [[open_issues/symlink_translator]].
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## Porting Packages