From cd875551b32b895f4049bc94e78067f2cd4783ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: antrik Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:37:37 +0100 Subject: Diskfs locking GSoC task: Add note about code review --- community/gsoc/project_ideas/libdiskfs_locking.mdwn | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'community/gsoc') diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libdiskfs_locking.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libdiskfs_locking.mdwn index c9d55bb7..7212ac8f 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libdiskfs_locking.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/libdiskfs_locking.mdwn @@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ runtime. Or implementing a unit testing framework that explicitely checks locking in various code paths. (The latter could serve as a template for implementing unit checks in other parts of the Hurd codebase...) +(A systematic code review would probably suffice to find the existing locking +issues; but it wouldn't document the work in terms of actual code produced, and +thus it's not suitable for a GSoC project...) + This task requires experience with debugging locking issues in multithreaded applications. -- cgit v1.2.3