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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Open jobs for finishing GNU libc:
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 Open jobs for finishing GNU libc:
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-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>.
 
 If you have time and talent to take over any of the jobs below please
 contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.


@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
      for the current status (of course better use a mirror of ftp.gnu.org).
 
 
      for the current status (of course better use a mirror of ftp.gnu.org).
 
 

-[ 6] Write `long double' versions of the math functions.  This should be
-     done in collaboration with the NetBSD and FreeBSD people.
+[ 6] Write `long double' versions of the math functions.

 
      The libm is in fact fdlibm (not the same as in Linux libc 5).
 
 
      The libm is in fact fdlibm (not the same as in Linux libc 5).
 


@@ -53,7 +52,7 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
      with long double arguments.
 
      Beside this most of the complex math functions which are new in
      with long double arguments.
 
      Beside this most of the complex math functions which are new in

-     ISO C 9X should be improved.  Writing some of them in assembler is
+     ISO C99 should be improved.  Writing some of them in assembler is

      useful to exploit the parallelism which often is available.
 
 
      useful to exploit the parallelism which often is available.
 
 


@@ -77,6 +76,9 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
 
      It is planned to do a complete rewrite.
 
 
      It is planned to do a complete rewrite.
 

+***  We have now 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.
 
 [11] Write access function for netmasks, bootparams, and automount
      databases for nss_files and nss_db module.


@@ -84,24 +86,20 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
      hard and not all services must be supported at once.
 
 
      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
 
 [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!
 
 
      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
 
 [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


@@ -125,6 +123,9 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
 [19] A user-level STREAMS implementation should be available if the
      kernel does not provide the support.
 
 [19] A user-level STREAMS implementation should be available if the
      kernel does not provide the support.
 

+***  This is a much lower priority job now that STREAMS are optional in
+     XPG.
+

 
 [20] More conversion modules for iconv(3).  Existing modules should be
      extended to do things like transliteration if this is wanted.
 
 [20] More conversion modules for iconv(3).  Existing modules should be
      extended to do things like transliteration if this is wanted.


@@ -141,9 +142,12 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
      - the nscd creates the hash tables and the information it stores
        in it in a mmap()ed region.  This means no pointers must be
        used, only offsets.
      - the nscd creates the hash tables and the information it stores
        in it in a mmap()ed region.  This means no pointers must be
        used, only offsets.

+     OR
+       if POSIX shared memory is available use a named shared memory
+       region to put the data in

      - each program using NSS functionality tries to open the file
        with the data.
      - each program using NSS functionality tries to open the file
        with the data.

-     - by checking some timestamp (which the nscd renew frequently)
+     - by checking some timestamp (which the nscd renews frequently)

        the programs can test whether the file is still valid
      - if the file is valid look through the nscd and locate the
        appropriate hash table for the database and lookup the data.
        the programs can test whether the file is still valid
      - if the file is valid look through the nscd and locate the
        appropriate hash table for the database and lookup the data.


@@ -153,7 +157,7 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
 
 
 [22] It should be possible to have the information gconv-modules in
 
 
 [22] It should be possible to have the information gconv-modules in

-     a simple database which is faster to access.  Using libdb is probably
+     a simple cache 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
      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


@@ -164,7 +168,7 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
            && stat ("gconv-modules.db", &std) == 0
            && stp.st_mtime < std.st_mtime)
          {
            && stat ("gconv-modules.db", &std) == 0
            && stp.st_mtime < std.st_mtime)
          {

-           ... use the database ...
+           ... use the cache ...

          {
        else
          {
          {
        else
          {


@@ -194,7 +198,4 @@ contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
      user should be preferred even if the last user spent more time.
 
 
      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