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| -rw-r--r-- | PROJECTS | 24 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 14 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Open jobs for finishing GNU libc: --------------------------------- -Status: December 1998 +Status: February 2001 If you have time and talent to take over any of the jobs below please contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>. @@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>. It is planned to do a complete rewrite. +*** We have no 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. @@ -84,24 +87,20 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>. hard and not all services must be supported at once. -[14] We need to write a library for on-the-fly transformation of streams - of text. In fact, this would be a recode-library (you know, GNU recode). - This is needed in several places in the GNU libc and I already have - rather concrete plans but so far no possibility to start this. - -*** The library is available, now it remains to be used in the streams. - - [15] Cleaning up the header files. Ideally, each header style should follow the "good examples". Each variable and function should have a short description of the function and its parameters. The prototypes should always contain variable names which can help to identify their meaning; better than - int foo __P ((int, int, int, int)); + int foo (int, int, int, int); Blargh! +*** The conformtest.pl tool helps cleaning the namespace. As far as + known the prototypes all contain parameter names. But maybe some + 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 @@ -194,7 +193,4 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>. user should be preferred even if the last user spent more time. -[26] Improve the AIO implementation so that threads do not immediately - terminate if no more requests are available. Let them sleep for a - while and wake them up on demand. If after a while no request arrived - they really can die. +[26] ...done |