CAP_UNIX_PROGRAMMER

Hey all

Finally i got CAP_BLOG to write this entry. ;)( read this if u wanna understand the statement)
I am vey very tired today as i write this post but more importantly i am very happy as well for being so tired. Finally i am done with my project Combined Capabiltiy and RBAC.

The project was one of the best experiences(i m bluffing it was my first so ;) ) i have had all my life with regards to system programming in C. The project involved implementing RBAC on minix3 operating system. It took us more than a month to build this system, starting from design to implementation to fixing bugs, facing system crashes, machine hang and what not. We must have seen the term kernel panic and fs died for many times during this one month. And each time we saw it sent shivers down my and my partner's spine for we had lost considerable amount of work we had done in probably the last 4-5 hours or maybe even a day.

Though not complete and perfect in its truest sense we are proud to have got this far as well. We were done with 85% of the requirements before we went for the demo today afternoon. I became very nervous during the demo as the stakes were big bcoz dr.du gives huge importance to the salesmanship u put in ur presentation during the demo and being my first demo in grad school i knew i was going to suck at that part and i did. My fingers were trembling when i was writing on the keyboard, even did a lot of typos during the demo. We have a weeks time to complete the rest of the 15% but i don think with OOD final project lined up i can get back to RBAC in the next week or so. So i guess i shall have to be content with 85% though i certainly dont want to be and i regret that m forced into such a decision.

Ohh just now Dr.Fawcett has revoked CAP_BLOG from me :( so i guess i wont be blogging again for quite some days. At least till 8th may.

c ya all then

P.S. Finally i have decided that i qualify to be called as a unix programmer.
Vote of Thanks to Dr.Du,Karthick,Nishesh,Ravi,Gagan,Varun.


Shantanu