glibc/PROJECTS
Ulrich Drepper 26761c287f update from main archive 961113
Thu Nov 14 02:00:33 1996  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* inet/Makefile (headers): Add aliases.h.
	(routines): Add getaliasent_r, getaliasent, getaliasname, and
	getaliasname_r.
	* aliases.h: New file.
	* inet/aliases.h: New file.
	* inet/getaliasent.c: New file.
	* inet/getaliasent_r.c: New file.
	* inet/getaliasname.c: New file.
	* inet/getaliasname_r.c: New file.
	* nss/Makefile (databases): Add alias.
	* nss/alias-lookup.c: New file.
	* nss/databases.def: Add aliases and publickey.
	* nss/nss_db/db-alias.c: New file.
	* nss/nss_files/files-alias.c: New file.

	* inet/getnetgrent_r.c (__internal_getnetgrent): Buffer length
	argument to lookup function is of type size_t.
	(innetgr): Likewise.
	* nss/getXXbyYY_r.c: Likewise.
	* nss/getXXent_r.c: Likewise.
	* nss/nss_db/db-XXX.c: Likewise.

	* nss/getXXbyYY.c: Don't provide static buffer.  Resize if call
	failed because buffer was too small.
	* nss/getXXent.c: Likewise.

	* nss/nss_files/files-XXX.c: Correct handling of shared file.  The
	getXXent_r function now uses f[gs]etpos to get to the correct
	position.

	* nss/nss_files/files-parse.c: Indent lines for better readability.

	* malloc/obstack.c: Add new variable obstack_alloc_failed_handler
	and new function print_and_abort.  Remove all references to
	alloc_failed field.
	Add new function _obstack_memory_used.
	* malloc/obstack.h (struct obstack): Remove field alloc_field.
	Remove all references to alloc_failed field.
	Add prototype for _obstack_memory_used.

	* posix/unistd.h: Correct typo.

Wed Nov 13 03:09:16 1996  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* configure.in: Require at least autoconf-2.10.2.

Tue Nov 12 03:35:01 1996  Christian von Roques  <roques@pond.sub.org>

	* malloc/obstack.h: Add new macro `obstack_make_room'.
	* malloc/obstack.c: Add function implementation for
	`obstack_make_room'.

Mon Nov 11 13:54:04 1996  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	Update to BIND-4.9.5-REL.
	* resolv/Banner: Set to 4.9.5-REL.
	* resolv/inet_net_pton.c: Was doing bad things to subnets and b'casts.
	* resolv/res_debug.c (__fp_nquery): Could read past end of buffer.
	(fix from BIND 8.1)

	* config.make.in: Add definition for top_absdir.
	* Makerules (make-link): Fix path to rellns-sh script.

Sat Nov  9 02:15:24 1996  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* posix/unistd.h: Fix comment.

	* manual/arith.texi: Fix misspellings.  Use `zero', not `null',
	when talking about numbers.
	* manual/users.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/creature.texi: Likewise.  Use @defvarx for a secondary
	description header.

Sat Nov  9 19:25:11 1996  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* sysdeps/posix/Makefile ($(common-objpfx)mk-stdiolim): Depend on
	the real posix1_lim.h file so that it works in all subdirs, not
	only in posix.

Sat Nov  9 02:08:34 1996  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* Makefile ($(includedir)/gnu/lib-names.h): Quote arguments of tr.

Sat Nov  9 02:06:17 1996  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* sysdeps/unix/Makefile ($(common-objpfx)s-proto.d): Don't depend
	on $(before-compile) which hasn't been properly setup yet at this
	point.

Sat Nov  9 02:02:48 1996  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* sysdeps/generic/sigset.h: Don't use implicit int which will
	probably require a diagnostic in the next revision of the C
	standard.
	* sysdeps/stub/lockfile.c: Likewise.

Sat Nov  9 01:57:17 1996  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/syscall.S: Correct last change.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/sysdep.h: Likewise.

Mon Nov 11 02:53:14 1996  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* time/strftime.c: Update copyright.  Small cosmetic changes.

	char *' and `int'.
	PROJ_ID are used.
1996-11-14 02:04:07 +00:00

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Open jobs for finishing GNU libc:
---------------------------------
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>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[ 1] Port to new platforms or test current version on formerly supported
platforms.
[ 2] Test compliance with standards. If you have access to recent
standards (IEEE, ISO, ANSI, X/Open, ...) and/or test suites you
could do some checks as the goal is to be compliant with all
standards if they do not contradict each other.
[ 3] Write translations for the GNU libc message for the so far
unsupported languages. GNU libc is fully internationalized and
users can immediately benefit from this.
Take a look at the matrix in
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ABOUT-NLS
for the current status (of course better use a mirror of prep).
[ 4] Write wordexp() function; this is described in POSIX.2, the
header <wordexp.h> already exists.
Implementation idea: use some functions from bash.
[ 5] Write `long double' versions of the math functions. This should be
done in collaboration with the NetBSD and FreeBSD people.
The libm is in fact fdlibm (not the same as in Linux libc).
**** Partly done. But we need someone with numerical experiences for
the rest.
[ 6] If you enjoy assembler programming (as I do --drepper :-) you might
be interested in writing optimized versions for some functions.
Especially the string handling functions can be optimized a lot.
Take a look at
Faster String Functions
Henry Spencer, University of Toronto
Usenix Winter '92, pp. 419--428
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
ftw() function as well to share most of the code.
**** Almost done!
[ 8] Write AVL-tree based tsearch() et.al. functions. Currently only
a very simple algorithm is used.
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 and complete
implementation of character class and collation class handling.
It is planed to do a complete rewrite.
[10] Add mmap() support to malloc().
Doug Lea's malloc implementation might give some ideas. Perhaps
switching completly to his implementation is an option if it
a) can work without mmap() support (not all system GNU libc
is running on have mmap)
b) is without mmap support at least as fast as the current
implementation
c) will be extended with the current hooks and additional functions
Please contact bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu before starting to avoid
duplicated work.
[11] Write access function for netmasks, bootparams, and automount
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.