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 Open jobs for finishing GNU libc:
 ---------------------------------
-Status: July 1996
+Status: August 1996
 
 If you have time and talent to take over any of the jobs below please
 contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
@@ -32,33 +32,7 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
      Implementation idea: use some functions from bash.
 
 
-[ 5] Write reentrant versions of crypt() et.al.
-
-     Implementation idea: Define in <crypt.h>
-
-	struct crypt_data
-	{
-	  <... all the needed data ...>
-	};
-
-     and define additional functions
-
-	char *crypt_r (__const char *__key, __const char *__salt,
-		       struct crypt_data *__data);
-
-	void setkey_r (__const char *__key, struct crypt_data *__data);
-
-	void encrypt_r (char *__block, int __edflag,
-			struct crypt_data *__data);
-
-     If possible the non-reentrant functions should use the reentrant
-     ones.
-
-     Because of the US export restrictions it might be a good idea if
-     some non-american person does this job.
-
-
-[ 6] Write `long double' versions of the math functions.  This should be
+[ 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).
@@ -66,7 +40,7 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
 **** Partly done.
 
 
-[ 7] If you enjoy assembler programming (as I do --drepper :-) you might
+[ 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.
 
@@ -81,21 +55,21 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
      on this.
 
 
-[ 8] Write nftw() function.  Perhaps it might be good to reimplement the
+[ 7] Write nftw() function.  Perhaps it might be good to reimplement the
      ftw() function as well to share most of the code.
 
 **** Almost done!
 
 
-[ 9] Write AVL-tree based tsearch() et.al. functions.  Currently only
+[ 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.
 
-[10] Extend regex and/or rx to work with wide characters.
+[ 9] Extend regex and/or rx to work with wide characters.
 
 
-[11] Add mmap() support to malloc().
+[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
@@ -107,7 +81,7 @@ contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
      Please contact bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu before starting to avoid
      duplicated work.
 
-[12] Write access function for netmasks, bootparams, netgroup, publickey,
+[11] Write access function for netmasks, bootparams, netgroup, publickey,
      automount, 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.