Re: [address@hidden: [IMPORTANT] Ideas for Summer of Code 2016]

[Justus Winter]

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