From a9e1a14843e8230a424d6d8093be3cccbc147fce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: antrik Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:43:03 +0100 Subject: NFS GSoC task: Proper exercise suggestion --- community/gsoc/project_ideas/lexical_dot-dot.mdwn | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'community') diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/lexical_dot-dot.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/lexical_dot-dot.mdwn index 860add33..55d00337 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/lexical_dot-dot.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/lexical_dot-dot.mdwn @@ -33,5 +33,8 @@ See also [[GNU_Savannah_bug 17133]]. Possible mentors: ? -Exercise: Make some modification to the name lookup mechanism. (More specific -suggestions welcome... :-) ) +Exercise: This project requires changes to the name lookup mechanism in the +Hurd-related glibc parts, as well as the Hurd servers. Thus, the exercise task +should involve hacking glibc or Hurd servers, or even both. Fixing the bug in +the client-side nfs translator (/hurd/nfs) that makes "rmdir foo/" fail while +"rmdir foo" works, seems a good candidate. -- cgit v1.2.3