Google Summer of Code 2015 strace participation

[Alangi Derick]

Hi,
   I am Alangi Derick Ndimnain. I am a third year undergraduate software
engineering student i did a course called systems programming which talks
about the notion of systems call. I will really like to work with system
calls and implement some of them. I will like you to work me through so
that i can contribute some code to the organisation because i think i have
some ideas i can chip in to the organisation in order to increase their
code base and improve on Strace as a whole. I will also like you to mentor
me as your student and i will work with you based on your idea or domain of
specialty.
           Thanks and will be waiting for your mail what will lead me to
get involved in Strace.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:35 AM, Dmitry V. Levin <ldv at altlinux.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 05:51:44AM -0800, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
> > Fellow stracers:
> > The GSOC is on and we had a decent run last year.
> > I think this is worth it and we should participate this year again.
> > Dmitry agreed.
> > I will setup the wiki pages accordingly ...
> > Who wants to join up as a mentor?
>
> I can mentor 1 or maybe 2 students.
>
> > What would be some of the projects ideas we could have?
>
> The most important thing we need that could be done as a student project
> is a test suite that covers every syscall.  From one side, it would be
> educational for any student who is interested in syscall internals because
> writing syscall parsers and tests for them is the second best way to find
> out how syscalls work.  From another side, a comprehensive test suite is a
> prerequisite for any major change in strace source code.  This test suite
> project doesn't have to be a work from scratch, there are already existing
> tests (e.g. ltp/testcases/kernel/syscalls and sandbox/tests) that could
> be used as a starting point.
>
> Another interesting project is implementing reliable multiarch support.
> My implementation idea was to separate all personality-specific parsers
> from universal ones, compile these parsers for each personality using
> gcc -E -m32/-mx32 and preprocessor tricks, and hook up appropriate
> parsers to syscall tables.  This approach requires good understanding of
> strace internals and implies a lot of changes to already existing code,
> so it's a less likely candidate for a student project.
>
>
> --
> ldv
>
>
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