From 4f6e25bae59835cb402597fc82a8029f6d56a3c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 20:40:40 +0100 Subject: GSoC preparations id:"20160214104030.10353.84931@thinkbox.jade-hamburg.de" --- community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn | 12 ++++++++++-- community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager.mdwn | 6 +++--- community/gsoc/project_ideas/secure_chroot.mdwn | 16 ++++++++++++++-- community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.mdwn | 12 ++++++++++-- community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr.mdwn | 4 ++-- 5 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'community/gsoc/project_ideas') diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn index 8581c7cb..0f921590 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2016 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 @@ -66,8 +67,15 @@ To be able to work on the framework, the student will also have to get a good understanding of certain aspects of Hurd, such as memory management for example. -Possible mentors: Zheng Da, Samuel Thibault (youpi) +Possible mentors: Justus Winter (teythoon), Samuel Thibault (youpi) Exercise: Get one of the not yet integrated Linux network card drivers to work. (Note: This should be straightforward, once you have the framework properly built and set up...) + +--- + + +# 2016-02-14, Justus Winter + +`s/dde/rump/g` of course. diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager.mdwn index 721f6d06..63a1d7cb 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2016 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 @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Guix|hurd/running/nix#guix]]. See also: [Porting Guix to GNU/Hurd](http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2014.html#guix_hurd). -Possible mentors: Ludovic Courtès, Ben Asselstine (bing) +Possible mentors: Justus Winter (teythoon), Ludovic Courtès Exercise: Make some improvement to any of the existing Hurd translators. Especially those in [hurdextras](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/) are often diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/secure_chroot.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/secure_chroot.mdwn index bfaf330b..caaef129 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/secure_chroot.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/secure_chroot.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable @@ -39,10 +39,22 @@ new mechanisms. (Translators.) More important than the actual code is the documentation of what he did: he must be able to defend why he chose a certain approach, and explain why he believes this approach really secure. -Possible mentors: Carl Fredrik Hammar (cfhammar) +Possible mentors: Justus Winter (teythoon) Exercise: It's hard to come up with a relevant exercise, as there are so many possible solutions... Probably best to make an improvement to one of the existing translators -- if possible, something touching name resolution or and such, e.g. implementing file_reparent() in a translator that doesn't support it yet. + +--- + + +# 2016-02-14, Justus Winter + +I have factored out the proxying-bits from fakeroot so that it can be shared. +The most simple chrooting translator is the identity translator, which proxies +RPCs without really modifying them. Combining the identity translator with +`settrans --chroot` gives us `chroot(8)`. With a little more work, I believe +that can be used to implement `chroot(2)`. Whether or not that is secure +remains to be seen, maybe that is even an ill-conceived goal. diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.mdwn index bd67718b..5dec02c6 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2016 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 @@ -73,4 +74,11 @@ Completing this project will require gaining a very good understanding of the Hurd architecture and spirit. Previous experience with other virtualization solutions would be very helpful. -Possible mentors: Olaf Buddenhagen (antrik), Carl Fredrik Hammar (cfhammar) +Possible mentors: Justus Winter (teythoon) + +--- + + +# 2016-02-14, Justus Winter + +I have a unprivileged-subhurds prototype that "just" needs finishing. diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr.mdwn index 8ec4c42e..8e1a532b 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2016 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 @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ with xattrs might help a bit, but shouldn't be really necessary either. Some previous work on xattr support is [[available|open_issues/xattr]], and might serve as a starting point. -Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi) +Possible mentors: Justus Winter (teythoon), Samuel Thibault (youpi) Exercise: Implement support for different inode sizes (other than 128 bytes) in Hurd's ext2fs. -- cgit v1.2.3