From acae65d8ec98e1bea1d8d903e8748e8c911b3baf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 03:48:37 +0100 Subject: lockf is (almost) not implement at all --- community/gsoc/project_ideas/file_locking.mdwn | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'community') diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/file_locking.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/file_locking.mdwn index b6b393f9..af010c98 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/file_locking.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/file_locking.mdwn @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ 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]]."]]"""]] -[[!meta title="Fix File Locking"]] +[[!meta title="Fix and Complete File Locking Support"]] Over the years, [[UNIX]] has aquired a host of different file locking mechanisms. Some of them work on the Hurd, while others are buggy or only partially @@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ implemented. This breaks many applications. The goal is to make all file locking mechanisms work properly. This requires finding all existing shortcomings (through systematic testing and/or checking for known issues in the bug tracker and mailing list archives), and fixing -them. +them. The biggest missing feature is record locking, i.e. the lockf variant, +which needs a complete implementation. This task will require digging into parts of the code to understand how file locking works on the Hurd. Only general programming skills are required. -- cgit v1.2.3