Hi, Quoting Samuel Thibault (2016-02-10 19:10:58) > Any ideas/mentors for the summer of code?
I'd be happy to mentor someone. I went over the list of our project ideas, and the ones I'd like to see tackled the most are: * https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.html I have a unprivileged-subhurds prototype that "just" needs finishing. * https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc/project_ideas/secure_chroot.html 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. * https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager.html This talks about replacing Guix symlink-tree with a specialized translator. * https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr.html That would shut the Linux ext2 developers up... * https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code.html s/dde/rump/g of course. Cheers, Justus
