On Mar 12, 8:28pm, charles.cui1...@gmail.com (Charles Cui) wrote: -- Subject: Re: Google summer code 2016 project ideas
| Hi Christos, | | My current focus is to classify the errors when building posix test | suite on netbsd. | Basically, there is | 1. easy to fix error, likes formatting, lack of necessary headers, etc. | 2. errors that can convert to netbsd implementation. Some systems (ex linux) | actually define the same function name with netbsd, but they may have | different parameters. | 3. netbsd miss the implementation of some features. | | Problem 1 and 2 can be solved by some kind of converting and minor fixes. | For problem 3, which needs the implementation in kernel, or libraries, | can we use the implementation of existing system (like linux) and | tailor to fit netbsd? That sounds like a good classification and in your plan you should allocate some time (first perhaps) to cleanup 1 and 2. For 3 you are better off looking at FreeBSD instead because the code is a lot more similar. Best, christos
