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diff --git a/user/pochu.mdwn b/user/pochu.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..164f8900 --- /dev/null +++ b/user/pochu.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 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]]."]]"""]] + +# Emilio Pozuelo Monfort + +Email: pochu27@gmail.com + +--- + +# GSoC 2010: Hurd: Fix Compatibility Problems Exposed by Testsuites + +Mentor: Carl Fredrik Hammar + +## Abstract + +This project will consist of identifiying some projects' test suite +failures when executed on GNU/Hurd, debugging them, and if they are +truly GNU/Hurd issues (and not problems in the projects themselves), +fixing them. + +## Timeline +* May 24th: Students begin coding for their GSoC projects +* May 31st: GLib and GNU coreutils done +* June 8th: End of classes +* June 28th: Python done +* July 9th: End of exams +* July 12th: Perl done +* July 16th: Mid-term evaluations deadline +* August 1st: DebConf +* August 16th: Firm 'pencils down' date + + +## TODO +* Send copyright paperwork back to the FSF. +* Bug 28934: Address comments on the patches. +* Bug 29655: Submit to libc-alpha when the copyright assignment is on file. +* Implement getsockopt() in hurd/pflocal/socket.c +* Send a summary to bug-hurd explaining the O_NOFOLLOW & O_NOTRANS problem. +* Investigate why coreutils' nice test fails. + + +## Documentation +* [Towards a New Strategy of OS Design, an architectural overview by Thomas Bushnell, BSG](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-paper.html) +* [The Hurd, a presentation by Marcus Brinkmann](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-talk.html) +* [The Hurd Hacking Guide](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/hhg.html) +* [MIG - The MACH Interface Generator](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/doc/unpublished/mig.ps) + +## Log + +### May 19 - May 26 +* Read [MIG - The MACH Interface Generator](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/doc/unpublished/mig.ps) +* Worked on bug 28934. Send [patches](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00108.html) for review. +* Requested GNU libc copyright papers to the FSF again since they didn't arrive the first time. + +### May 12 - May 19 +* Read http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-talk.html +* Half read http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/hhg.html +* Read many Hurd interfaces (fs.defs, auth.defs, fsys.defs, io.defs, + password.defs). + +### May 5 - May 12 +* Read http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-paper.html +* Improved the linkat() patch +* Fixed the issues mentioned in bug 28934, but after doing so I realized + that wouldn't work well. The only good solution is to pass file_name + from execve() to the exec server, so we need new RPCs. + +### April 28 - May 5 +* Submitted a talk proposal on Hurd with Michael Banck for DebConf +* Sent request to assign copyright to the FSF for Hurd/Mach/libc + +### Before April 28 +* Investigated the glib's gtester problem and tracked it down: + [bug 28934](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28934). Prepared a patch + but it's not good. +* [glib's garray test timeouts on Hurd](https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568760). + The tests passes if the timeout is increased. The current upstream timeout + (10s) is quite small (it fails on many Debian builds for some Linux arches). + However on Hurd it needs a very big time it seems (like more than 100s). + Maybe do an allocation benchmarch? +* Investigated glib's unix-fd test failure: getsockopt() isn't implemented + on Hurd. Need to implement it in hurd/pflocal/socket.c. +* Investigated coreutils' ln EIEIO, with Samuel's help. linkat() is buggy. + Reported as [bug 29655](https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29655). Prepared a + patch for it. +* Investigated coreutils' cp EACCES. Test case: 'mkfifo a && cp -R --copy-contents a b'. + Problem is that O_NOFOLLOW adds O_NOTRANS. |