GSoC: Student Introduction

Dmitry V. Levin ldv at strace.io
Mon Feb 13 16:02:57 UTC 2023


Hi Sahil,

On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 06:44:40PM +0530, Ice Gambit wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My name is Sahil and I am a final year computer science undergrad. I
> am interested in working on the "Improve Statistics Handling" project
> as part of GSoC 2023. I have been using strace as an end-user for a
> long time but have never been involved in its development.
> 
> I have an interest in systems programming and binary analysis, and am
> comfortable with C, C++ and Python. I am also working on enhancing my
> Rust skills. I have worked on some bite-sized tasks and issues in
> other open source organisations in the past (eg:
> https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/pull/1062).
> 
> I am confident that I'll be able to learn on the fly while working
> through the project and I believe I'll get to learn a lot. I was going
> through the list of possible microtasks as well as open issues on
> github, and I would like to work on issue #179 ("allow process
> detaching after N syscalls captured" -
> https://github.com/strace/strace/issues/179).
> 
> I would love to hear back from you.

Thank you for your interest in strace project.

Feel free to ask any specific questions related to the area of your
interest.


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