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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-07-10 21:11:01 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-07-10 21:11:01 +0000
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Add point for gconv-modules db.
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Open jobs for finishing GNU libc:
---------------------------------
-Status: May 1998
+Status: July 1998
If you have time and talent to take over any of the jobs below please
contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
@@ -113,10 +113,6 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
to the page size and install the correct length only for fclose() and
fflush() calls.
-[17] The sprof program to analyze the profiling data generated by ld.so
- must be finished. It should have the same functionality as gprof
- (as far as this is possible).
-
[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
@@ -134,3 +130,22 @@ 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
+
+[22] It should be possible to have the information gconv-modules in
+ a simple database 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
+ two tables, one for the aliases, one for the mappings. The code
+ should start similar to this:
+
+ if (stat ("gconv-modules", &stp) == 0
+ && stat ("gconv-modules.db", %std) == 0
+ && stp.st_mtime < std.st_mtime)
+ {
+ ... use the database ...
+ {
+ else
+ {
+ ... use the plain file if it exists, otherwise the db ...
+ }