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[Andrej Czapszys]

Hello.  I'm relatively new to the Hurd.  After building from CVS, I'm 
rather impressed with the current state.  That being said, I was mildly 
surprised at the lack of these features:
* devfs
* procfs
* /etc/ld.so.conf
* /dev/random, /dev/urandom
* /sbin/route

So, my question is, is anyone working on these and if not, can anyone 
give me some pointers on where to start?  I'd say that /etc/ld.so.conf 
support is most important to me, since local development based on 
third-party (oddly placed) libs can become nightmare-ish without it.

My professional expertise is with C and perl in that order.  However, I 
have never done any OS development outside of school (read: XINU).  So, 
I really need some advice like "look at xyz.c" in order to get started.

On a different note, since I personally find time-oriented goals to be 
helpful, is there some sort of roadmap or equivalent detailing when we 
would like certain features to be implemented/fixed/enhanced?  In 
particular, what is expected of the "1.0" release mentioned on the 
gnu.org website?

Thanks in advance.
Andrej Czapszys