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@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
for the current status (of course better use a mirror of ftp.gnu.org).
-[ 6] Write `long double' versions of the math functions. This should be
- done in collaboration with the NetBSD and FreeBSD people.
+[ 6] Write `long double' versions of the math functions.
The libm is in fact fdlibm (not the same as in Linux libc 5).
@@ -124,6 +123,9 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
[19] A user-level STREAMS implementation should be available if the
kernel does not provide the support.
+*** This is a much lower priority job now that STREAMS are optional in
+ XPG.
+
[20] More conversion modules for iconv(3). Existing modules should be
extended to do things like transliteration if this is wanted.
@@ -142,10 +144,10 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
used, only offsets.
OR
if POSIX shared memory is available use a named shared memory
- region to put the data is
+ region to put the data in
- each program using NSS functionality tries to open the file
with the data.
- - by checking some timestamp (which the nscd renew frequently)
+ - by checking some timestamp (which the nscd renews frequently)
the programs can test whether the file is still valid
- if the file is valid look through the nscd and locate the
appropriate hash table for the database and lookup the data.
@@ -155,7 +157,7 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
[22] It should be possible to have the information gconv-modules in
- a simple database which is faster to access. Using libdb is probably
+ a simple cache which is faster to access. Using libdb is probably
overkill and loading it would probably be slower than reading the
plain text file. But a file format with a simple hash table and
some data it points to should be fine. Probably it should be
@@ -166,7 +168,7 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
&& stat ("gconv-modules.db", &std) == 0
&& stp.st_mtime < std.st_mtime)
{
- ... use the database ...
+ ... use the cache ...
{
else
{