Alexander Ward KULUNGOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Hurd's translators seem like an interesting topic, but I'm at a > loss as to how to make a research paper out of them.
Well, I don't really know what's expected of a "research paper", but some aspects one could focus on * Translator mechanism in general, and how it allows users to extend the system. * Particular translators, like shadow-fs. As I understand it, it's interactino with the rest of the system is not entirely trivial, and it might be a good example for really understanding translators and the dir_lookup mechanism. * Networked filesystems. The only one that's implemented right now is NFS, I'm afraid. Hmm, there was some talk a while back about an sftp translator. If you have time for coding, implementing a network server and client using the sftp protocol could be illustrating. (The sftp protocol itself is quite small and clean. You can run it over a plain tcp connection or an ssh tunnel, which means that the code implementing sftp doesn't need to know anything about encryption stuff). * Security, the auth protocol, and the mechanisms that allow untrusted users to run their own file system servers. > Is there anything that I can do with the interface between > Mach and Hurd? My guess is no, it doesn't seem terribly interesting. > What about the efforts to port Hurd to L4? That's more fuzzy, or perhaps I should say closer to research. Finding the right questions to ask may well be harder than actually answering them ;-) > I've got a network of machines I can use to run experiments and > about a month's worth of time left to produce something. You could look into the pfinet redesign. It was discussed a while back, probably on the bug-hurd list. I don't think there's any code written. This is perhaps not the right project for a "complete newbie"; you'll definitely not be a newbie anymore if you manage that ;-) Regards, /Niels _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
