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| author | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1997-01-24 02:23:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1997-01-24 02:23:54 +0000 |
| commit | 9d187dd4ad11f857386881db032d7e71ad26f47c (patch) | |
| tree | dacaae8468e5cf69ffda0ef4b299472f429add8a /PROJECTS | |
| parent | 8d57beeab10d2afd72e2e3bc6b1ad4695b791955 (diff) | |
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update from main archive 970122 cvs/libc-970124
1997-01-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> * mktime.c (mktime): Invoke __tzset, not __tzset_internal, to set tz, so that tzname is set as POSIX requires. Fri Jan 24 02:49:18 1997 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * dirent/dirent.h: Declare readdir_r also when __USE_POSIX. * grp/grp.h: Declare *_r functions also when __USE_POSIX. * pwd/pwd.h: Likewise. * time/time.h: Likewise. * posix/unistd.h: Declare ttyname_r also when __USE_POSIX. * string/string.h: Declare strtok_r also when __USE_POSIX. * stdio-common/bug7.c: Use tmpnam to generate names for test files. * stdio-common/tmpnam.c: Update copyright. * stdio-common/tmpnam_r.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/sys/kernel_termios.h: Protect against multiple inclusion. Include <termbits.h>. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/kernel_termios.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/net/if.h: Update according to recent kernel headers. Patch by Philip Blundell <pjb27@cam.ac.uk>. Thu Jan 23 17:42:00 1997 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/clone.S: Correct author attribution. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/net/if_arp (MAX_ADDR_LEN): Add definition. Thu Jan 23 14:20:34 1997 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * time/tzfile.c (__tzfile_read): Don't allow arbitrary files to be read when running a setuid program.
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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/PROJECTS b/PROJECTS index b7272eee90..ea1c208161 100644 --- a/PROJECTS +++ b/PROJECTS @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Open jobs for finishing GNU libc: --------------------------------- -Status: October 1996 +Status: January 1997 If you have time and talent to take over any of the jobs below please contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu> @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu> [ 1] Port to new platforms or test current version on formerly supported platforms. +**** See http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/porting.html for more details. + [ 2] Test compliance with standards. If you have access to recent standards (IEEE, ISO, ANSI, X/Open, ...) and/or test suites you @@ -31,6 +33,8 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu> Implementation idea: use some functions from bash. +**** Somebody is working on this. Help may or may not be appreciated. + [ 5] Write `long double' versions of the math functions. This should be done in collaboration with the NetBSD and FreeBSD people. @@ -83,5 +87,15 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu> [11] 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. +**** There are plans for a new approach to this problem. Please contact + bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu before starting to work.) + + +[12] Several more or less small functions have to be written: + + + tcgetid() and waitid() from XPG4.2 + + grantpt(), ptsname(), unlockpt() from XPG4.2 + + getdate() from XPG4.2 + + fmtmsg() from SVID + + More information are available on request. |