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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2002-09-04 23:40:45 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2002-09-04 23:40:45 +0000
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Update.
2002-09-03 Gerhard Tonn <ton@de.ibm.com> * sysdeps/s390/s390/fpu/libm-test-ulps: Regenerate.
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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: