Hi, > Sorry all of you. I am extremely sorry for being so late in > sending > this mail.
You aren't late at all -- official application period is starting only on monday :-) > I did go through few guides and tutorials on procfs > on > GNU/Linux system. [...] > Please give me some time to go through it fully since it is a pretty huge > documentation and it takes some time to digest it. It's very good that you already looked into all this stuff :-) Note that it's not a problem if you don't know every detail of Linux procfs. Take a look into which parts of procfs are actually needed for tools like procfs, and concentrate on implementing that... > I have a working Installation of the GNU system[Debian GNU/HURD K-16], I > checked out the CVS code of procfs in the hurdextras repo. I also read the > Documentation thats there in the CVS [...] > I am also going through the code. I hope you people understand that > going through the entire code and understanding in less than 5 days is > quite > difficult for beginners. Of course -- you seem to have done quite a lot already :-) You will have enough time to understand the details. For now, having an idea how stuff works in general and what you need to change is a very good start :-) > I think its bit difficult to port all the features in > GNU/Linux procfs to HURD in 3 months by a single person, though its not > impossible(I also think its not necessary to port each and every feature > thats available in GNU/Linux). Indeed, we don't need all features -- only what's needed for procfs, top and similar tools. > I think most important of all the features that are to be made > available > are proc/<pid>/* features which are very important to implement process > related functionalities. So we need to focus on it at the moment. > Those features include > /proc/<pid>/cpu > /proc/<pid>/cwd > correcting the problems in /proc/<pid>/environ > /proc/<pid>/mem > completing /proc/<pid>/stat > /proc/cmdline > /proc/swaps /proc/<pid>/mem is problematic. Do we really need it for procps etc? I don't know enough about the others -- what they do, what they are needed for. Could you give a short summary, why you think each one important? > (This is only a rough idea of what can be done. I will draw the plan after > discussion here is complete. I am open for all your inputs. I will be > available in #hurd at the time which is convinient to you all. Please > inform > me so I can make myself available at that time. Please help me.) I will only be online again Wednesday evening. But most of the time, someone else should be on IRC -- just keep in mind that people sometimes need quite long before they can reply :-) Most people are online during the day and evening in european timezones -- roughly 12:00 to 24:00 UTC or so... All in all, what you wrote above sounds quite promising -- I'm sure you will be able to hand in a very good application :-) -antrik- -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer
