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diff --git a/contributing.mdwn b/contributing.mdwn index 7451c49b..67b84590 100644 --- a/contributing.mdwn +++ b/contributing.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ [[!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 @@ -80,7 +83,10 @@ 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". -* Some translators do not support [[hurd/fsysopts]]. +* 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. * Make the Hurd [[hurd/console]]'s configuration use [[xkb layout/variant instead of keymap|hurd/console/discussion]]. * Add a [[futex kernel trap|microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface#futex]] to GNU Mach. @@ -93,10 +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]]. @@ -104,6 +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]]. <a name="porting"></a> ## Porting Packages |