Hi, > Joan, where do think something could be missing?
Maybe a good start is to read and understand all the code of the translator and explain what every function does. That could be useful for others who want to contribute to the Hurd, not only on the lwip translator. Back in my GSoC I took some notes about pfinet, lwip, glibc and ip6. Attached are the notes but please Sooraj, take into account these are personal notes, not intended to be published and the statements I make in these documents *may be wrong*. I hope these notes help you to complete your documentation. Another thing you could do as part of your thesis is to make performance tests on both lwip and pfinet translators, to check which is faster and what's the difference. I never tested this, but I remember Justus did some quick tests and said the lwip translator was far slower than pfinet. It would be nice to confirm it and figure out why. >Also, are there perhaps some features that Sooraj could work on? If I remember correctly, poll() and ppoll() on glibc end up calling the io_select operation. Maybe a good exercise would be to add a new 'poll' operation to the pfinet interface, b/c it's not a big change but it requires changes on glibc, the MIG interface and the translator, so it's a nice exercise to have the full picture of how the Hurd works. What do you think?
