Hi! On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 11:40:30 +0100, Justus Winter <4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote: > Quoting Samuel Thibault (2016-02-10 19:10:58) > > Any ideas/mentors for the summer of code? > > I'd be happy to mentor someone.
Great; thanks! > I went over the list of our project ideas, and the ones I'd like to > see tackled the most are: [...] :-) Taking you at your word: commit 4f6e25bae59835cb402597fc82a8029f6d56a3c9 Author: Thomas Schwinge <tho...@codesourcery.com> Date: Wed Feb 24 20:40:40 2016 +0100 GSoC preparations id:"20160214104030.10353.84...@thinkbox.jade-hamburg.de" --- community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn | 16 ++++++++-------- 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 ++-- 6 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn index 643a424..7338d57 100644 --- community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn +++ community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 -Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, +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 @@ -97,9 +97,13 @@ All project ideas inlined: project_ideas: - "community/gsoc/project_ideas/physical_memory_management + "community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization + community/gsoc/project_ideas/secure_chroot + community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager + community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr + community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code + community/gsoc/project_ideas/physical_memory_management community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings - community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization community/gsoc/project_ideas/file_locking community/gsoc/project_ideas/gdb community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack @@ -110,8 +114,6 @@ project_ideas: community/gsoc/project_ideas/xmlfs community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot community/gsoc/project_ideas/lexical_dot-dot - community/gsoc/project_ideas/secure_chroot - community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends community/gsoc/project_ideas/maxpath community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat @@ -122,9 +124,7 @@ project_ideas: community/gsoc/project_ideas/testsuites community/gsoc/project_ideas/testing_framework community/gsoc/project_ideas/libcap - community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr community/gsoc/project_ideas/valgrind - community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code community/gsoc/project_ideas/dtrace community/gsoc/project_ideas/libdiskfs_locking" diff --git community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn index 8581c7c..0f92159 100644 --- community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.mdwn +++ 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 community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager.mdwn community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager.mdwn index 721f6d0..63a1d7c 100644 --- community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager.mdwn +++ 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 community/gsoc/project_ideas/secure_chroot.mdwn community/gsoc/project_ideas/secure_chroot.mdwn index bfaf330..caaef12 100644 --- community/gsoc/project_ideas/secure_chroot.mdwn +++ 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 community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.mdwn community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.mdwn index bd67718..5dec02c 100644 --- community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.mdwn +++ 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 community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr.mdwn community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr.mdwn index 8ec4c42..8e1a532 100644 --- community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr.mdwn +++ 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. Grüße Thomas
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