From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 01:17:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2013 (GSoC13)
Message-ID: <CACsJy8CCotnPo0C_o_0721O2w3dqXUWAYjCjgeEYQzq-CdX14g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87ehgd1qq2.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch>

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> wrote:
> * Naturally that ideas page is a bit stale now, and three projects
>   shorter.  Please propose new ideas and refresh or delete the old ones!
>   In particular some projects spawned long discussions on the list, and
>   the results of those discussions should be integrated to avoid deja
>   vus.

A proposal from what I've been involved lately: inotify support to
eliminate lstat and readdir syscalls. The scope may be small. But we
could aim to get it merged in master or at least next by the end of
GSoC. Or extend to another platform besides Linux, it helps ensure we
have good abstraction. My free time goes up and down unexpectedly, not
sure if I can commit to be a mentor. But I'm definitely interested and
will support whenever I can.
-- 
Duy