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Open jobs for finishing GNU libc:
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-Status: August 1996
+Status: October 1996
If you have time and talent to take over any of the jobs below please
contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
for the current status (of course better use a mirror of prep).
-[ 4] Write wordexp() function; this is described in POSIX.2, The
+[ 4] Write wordexp() function; this is described in POSIX.2, the
header <wordexp.h> already exists.
Implementation idea: use some functions from bash.
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
Henry Spencer, University of Toronto
Usenix Winter '92, pp. 419--428
- or just ask. Currently mostly i?86 optimized versions exist.
- Alpha versions are on their way, so please ask before working
- on this.
+ or just ask. Currently mostly i?86 and Alpha optimized versions
+ exist. Please ask before working on this to avoid duplicate
+ work.
[ 7] Write nftw() function. Perhaps it might be good to reimplement the
@@ -67,7 +67,11 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
There is a public domain version but using this would cause problems
with the assignment.
-[ 9] Extend regex and/or rx to work with wide characters.
+
+[ 9] Extend regex and/or rx to work with wide characters and complete
+ implementation of character class and collation class handling.
+
+ It is planed to do a complete rewrite.
[10] Add mmap() support to malloc().
@@ -82,7 +86,15 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
Please contact bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu before starting to avoid
duplicated work.
+
[11] Write access function for netmasks, bootparams, publickey, automount,
and aliases databases for nss_files and nss_db module.
The functions should be embedded in the nss scheme. This is not
hard and not all services must be supported at once.
+
+
+[12] Rewrite utmp/wtmp functions to use database functions. This is much
+ better than the normal flat file format.
+
+ Please contact bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu before starting to avoid
+ duplicated work.