Hi, I'm happy to announce that I have completed my thesis and presented it at a seminar. It was even passed with distinction which is the highest possible grade (the other two grades being passed and failed).
Its title is ``Generalizing mobility for the Hurd'', and the abstract is as follows: > The GNU Hurd features mobile objects > in its implementation of filesystem backing stores. > This thesis investigates the > limitations and security concerns > these objects present, > and how they can be overcome. > This is done in preparation for new applications > that feature mobile code and mobile objects. > In addition, > one such application is studied and implemented, > in which mobile code is used to make > the ioctl system call more extensible. For now it is available from my personal web page provided by my uni: <http://users.student.lth.se/cs07fh9/2009-hammar-hurd-mobility.pdf> but I don't know how long that will last since I'm no longer enrolled. I guess I'll have to get a web page of my own eventually. Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it easy to read, as it turned out to be quite a `heavy' text. Of course I don't want to discourage people from reading it, but don't say I didn't warn you. :-) Perhaps now I can get back to actual Hurd development. Regards, Fredrik
