What needs doing?

[Ivan Jager]

Ok, we realize now that it is too early to try to port a filesystem to 
Hurd/L4.

Neal told us there were other things that do need doing, like implementing 
the capability copying protocol (without death notifications for now), or 
working on how to do block transfers. We think we know enough to about 
capabilities. We decided that would be a good project. Given the 
recent discussion on #hurd-l4 about the security issues in the current 
capability system, we are wondering whether it would still be 
something useful to do. (Because if we are going to have a capability 
server, the protocol would be completely different, I think.)

Basically our problem is that we have 6 more weeks till the end of the 
semester, and we are back to needing something to implement. So we have a 
few questions: Would it still be useful to implement the capability 
transfer protocol described in ipc.tex? If not, is there anything else 
we can work on, that has a fairly well defined spec, and would actually be 
useful?


Ivan and mbrewer