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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Open jobs for finishing GNU libc: --------------------------------- -Status: February 2001 +Status: September 2002 If you have time and talent to take over any of the jobs below please contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>. @@ -52,15 +52,6 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>. work. -[10] Extend regex and/or rx to work with wide characters and complete - implementation of character class and collation class handling. - - It is planned to do a complete rewrite. - -*** We have now multibyte character support. But a rewrite is still - necessary. - - [11] Write access function for netmasks, bootparams, and automount databases for nss_files and nss_db module. The functions should be embedded in the nss scheme. This is not @@ -82,18 +73,6 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>. comments can be improved. -[16] The libio stream file functions should be extended in a way to use - mmap to map the file and use it as the buffer to user sees. For - read-only streams this should be rather easy and it avoids all read() - calls. - - A more sophisticated solution would use mmap also for writing. The - standards do not demand that the file on the disk is always in the - correct form so it would be possible to enlarge it always according - to the page size and install the correct length only for fclose() and - fflush() calls. - - [18] Based on the sprof program we need tools to analyze the output. The result should be a link map which specifies in which order the .o files are placed in the shared object. This should help to improve @@ -116,7 +95,7 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>. [21] The nscd program and the stubs in the libc should be changed so that each program uses only one socket connect. Take a look at - http://www.cygnus.com/~drepper/nscd.html + http://people.redhat.com/drepper/nscd.html An alternative approach is to use an mmap()ed file. The idea is the following: |