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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