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Open jobs for finishing GNU libc:
---------------------------------
-Status: May 1996
+Status: June 1996
If you have time and talent to take over any of the jobs below please
contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
The libm is in fact fdlibm (not the same as in Linux libc).
+**** Partly done.
+
[ 7] If you enjoy assembler programming (as I do --drepper :-) you might
be interested in writing optimized versions for some functions.
@@ -80,6 +82,8 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
[ 8] Write nftw() function. Perhaps it might be good to reimplement the
ftw() function as well to share most of the code.
+**** Almost done!
+
[ 9] Write AVL-tree based tsearch() et.al. functions. Currently only
a very simple algorithm is used.
@@ -96,3 +100,14 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
b) is without mmap support at least as fast as the current
implementation
c) will be extended with the current hooks and additional functions
+
+
+[12] Implement shadow password handling. There exist some but I don't
+ know of any falling under LGPL and where the author is willing to
+ contribute it to the FSF.
+
+
+[13] Write access function for group, ether, shadow, rpc, netmasks,
+ bootparams, netgroup, publickey, automount, aliases databases.
+ The functions should be embedded in the nss scheme. This is not
+ hard and not all services must be supported at once.