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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
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+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
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+
+[[!tag open_issue_hurd]]
+
+There are locking issues in the Hurd's libraries.
+
+[[!toc]]
+
+
+# Original [[community/GSoC]] Task Description
+
+[[!inline pages=community/gsoc/project_ideas/libdiskfs_locking feeds=no]]
+
+
+# ext2fs Deadlock
+
+[[ext2fs_deadlock]].
+
+
+# Formal Verification
+
+Methods of [[formal_verification]] should be applied to get an understanding of
+the behavior of the locking logic. There are tools for formal
+verification/[[code_analysis]] that can likely help here.
+
+There is a [[!FF_project 278]][[!tag bounty]] on this task.