GSoC 2026: Interest in Checkpointing of POSIX Message Queues

Hello Radostin👋,

My name is Fiyinfoluwa and I am interested in applying for the 
"Checkpointing of POSIX Message Queues" GSoC 2026 project with CRIU.

I  already set up the development environment on my OS(Ubuntu 24.04), 
built CRIU v4.2 from source on the criu-dev branch, and successfully 
performed checkpoint/restore of a basic process.

I have been studying the problem by reading the MSG_PEEK commit linked 
on the ideas page, reading issue #2285, and experimenting with POSIX 
message queues directly on my system using mq_open, mq_send and 
mq_receive to understand the mechanism I would need to support.

I have also reached out to Pavel a couple of days ago but wanted to 
contact you as well since you are also listed as a mentor for this project.

Before I start drafting my proposal I have a few questions:

1. Is this project still available for GSoC 2026?
2. Does the scope include both the kernel-side interface and the CRIU 
userspace implementation, or primarily one of the two?
3. Are there prior attempts or discussions beyond issue #2285 I should 
study?
4. Would you be open to reviewing a draft proposal before the March 31st 
deadline?

Thank you for your time.

Fiyinfoluwa
GitHub: https://github.com/fiyinfoluwa001