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Open jobs for finishing GNU libc:
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Status: July 1996
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If you have time and talent to take over any of the jobs below please
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contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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[ 1] Port to new platforms or test current version on formerly supported
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platforms.
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[ 2] Test compliance with standards. If you have access to recent
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standards (IEEE, ISO, ANSI, X/Open, ...) and/or test suites you
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could do some checks as the goal is to be compliant with all
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standards if they do not contradict each other.
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[ 3] Write translations for the GNU libc message for the so far
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unsupported languages. GNU libc is fully internationalized and
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users can immediately benefit from this.
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Take a look at the matrix in
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ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ABOUT-NLS
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for the current status (of course better use a mirror of prep).
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[ 4] Write wordexp() function; this is described in POSIX.2, The
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header <wordexp.h> already exists.
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Implementation idea: use some functions from bash.
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[ 5] Write reentrant versions of crypt() et.al.
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Implementation idea: Define in <crypt.h>
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struct crypt_data
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{
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<... all the needed data ...>
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};
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and define additional functions
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char *crypt_r (__const char *__key, __const char *__salt,
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struct crypt_data *__data);
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void setkey_r (__const char *__key, struct crypt_data *__data);
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void encrypt_r (char *__block, int __edflag,
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struct crypt_data *__data);
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If possible the non-reentrant functions should use the reentrant
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ones.
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Because of the US export restrictions it might be a good idea if
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some non-american person does this job.
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[ 6] Write `long double' versions of the math functions. This should be
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done in collaboration with the NetBSD and FreeBSD people.
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The libm is in fact fdlibm (not the same as in Linux libc).
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**** Partly done.
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[ 7] If you enjoy assembler programming (as I do --drepper :-) you might
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be interested in writing optimized versions for some functions.
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Especially the string handling functions can be optimized a lot.
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Take a look at
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Faster String Functions
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Henry Spencer, University of Toronto
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Usenix Winter '92, pp. 419--428
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or just ask. Currently mostly i?86 optimized versions exist.
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[ 8] Write nftw() function. Perhaps it might be good to reimplement the
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ftw() function as well to share most of the code.
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**** Almost done!
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[ 9] Write AVL-tree based tsearch() et.al. functions. Currently only
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a very simple algorithm is used.
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There is a public domain version but using this would cause problems
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with the assignment.
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[10] Extend regex and/or rx to work with wide characters.
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[11] Add mmap() support to malloc().
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Doug Lea's malloc implementation might give some ideas. Perhaps
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switching completly to his implementation is an option if it
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a) can work without mmap() support (not all system GNU libc
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is running on have mmap)
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b) is without mmap support at least as fast as the current
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implementation
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c) will be extended with the current hooks and additional functions
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[12] Implement shadow password handling. There exist some but I don't
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know of any falling under LGPL and where the author is willing to
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contribute it to the FSF.
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[13] Write access function for shadow, netmasks, bootparams, netgroup,
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publickey, automount, aliases databases for nss_files and nss_db
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module.
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The functions should be embedded in the nss scheme. This is not
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hard and not all services must be supported at once.
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