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 Open jobs for finishing GNU libc:
 ---------------------------------
-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.