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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Open jobs for finishing GNU libc: --------------------------------- -Status: August 1996 +Status: October 1996 If you have time and talent to take over any of the jobs below please contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu> for the current status (of course better use a mirror of prep). -[ 4] Write wordexp() function; this is described in POSIX.2, The +[ 4] Write wordexp() function; this is described in POSIX.2, the header <wordexp.h> already exists. Implementation idea: use some functions from bash. @@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu> Henry Spencer, University of Toronto Usenix Winter '92, pp. 419--428 - or just ask. Currently mostly i?86 optimized versions exist. - Alpha versions are on their way, so please ask before working - on this. + or just ask. Currently mostly i?86 and Alpha optimized versions + exist. Please ask before working on this to avoid duplicate + work. [ 7] Write nftw() function. Perhaps it might be good to reimplement the @@ -67,7 +67,11 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu> There is a public domain version but using this would cause problems with the assignment. -[ 9] Extend regex and/or rx to work with wide characters. + +[ 9] Extend regex and/or rx to work with wide characters and complete + implementation of character class and collation class handling. + + It is planed to do a complete rewrite. [10] Add mmap() support to malloc(). @@ -82,7 +86,15 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu> Please contact bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu before starting to avoid duplicated work. + [11] Write access function for netmasks, bootparams, publickey, automount, and aliases databases for nss_files and nss_db module. The functions should be embedded in the nss scheme. This is not hard and not all services must be supported at once. + + +[12] Rewrite utmp/wtmp functions to use database functions. This is much + better than the normal flat file format. + + Please contact bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu before starting to avoid + duplicated work. |