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-# <a name="Debian_GNU_Hurd"> </a> Debian GNU/Hurd
+For how best to contribte, see [[contributing]].
-The Debian Hurd port maintains [a list of projects](http://alioth.debian.org/pm/?group_id=30628), both porting and general enhancements.
+This todo is primarily targetted at the Hurd proper
+and applications that rely on the Hurd interfaces.
-# <a name="psmisc"> psmisc </a>
+The canonical TODOs from the CVS archive:
+
+* [TODO file](http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/~checkout~/hurd/hurd/TODO?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain)
+* [Task file](http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/~checkout~/hurd/hurd/tasks?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain)
+
+* psmisc
The tools provided by the psmisc package are linux centric. Killall and pstree, for instance, require Linux's proc file system but could just as easily use Hurd's libps.
--- [[NealWalfield]] - 14 Dec 2005
+* tmpfs
+* ppp
+* unionfs/stowfs
+* supermount translator
-# <a name="tmpfs"> tmpfs </a>
+Related: [[KnownHurdLimits]]
-# <a name="ppp"> ppp </a>
+From Marcus, 2002:
-# <a name="unionfs_stowfs"> unionfs/stowfs </a>
+* xkb driver for console (for international users)
+* kbd leds in console (well, in general, Roland's new driver in oskit for that crap)
+* fixing fakeroot (it's buggy)
+* fixing tmpfs (it's buggy, Neal says it's Mach's fault)
+* adding posix shared memory (requires the io\_close call to be implemented)
+* adding posix file locking (requires the io\_close call to be implemented)
+* testing
+ * find + various filesystems (are inode numbers for . and .. sane?)
+ * ext2fs with other block sizes than 4096
+ * --help and --version and --usage in all programs
+ * I have seen ^V in some --help output, might be argp bug
+ * Verify that all options are documented clearly, and that no unimplemented options appear
+ * Is the short and long description in the help output correct?
+ * Is the return value of all programs correct (eg, does main() return a sane value)
+ * Is the suid bit correctly set for all installed programs?
+ * Translators
+ * Does settrans -g work? -fg?
+ * Does fsysopts work? Does setting options with fsysopts work?
+ * Does stat() work on all translated nodes and give proper data?
+ * What about chown, chmod (some translators should pass this through to the underlying node, esp in /dev!)
+ * Does statfs give correct data?
+ * Are all inode numbers and link counts correct?
+* We also should have a "make check" test suite. We can add this once Jeff finished his automake patches
+* pick up the other things
+ * pthread, definitely. Now that we are so close
+ * new console is basically done
+ * needs integration of course
+ * X switching support
+* there is certainly more to do ...
-# <a name="_http_hurd_gnufans_org_bin_view_"> </a> [Improve Mach](http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Mach/GNUMachRevivalProject)
+Wolfgang list of [Easy tasks](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-hurd/2002-July/006413.html) on July 28, 2002:
-# <a name="supermount_translator"> supermount translator </a>
+<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>Difficulty</strong></th>
+ <th bgcolor="#99CCCC"><strong>Task</strong></th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 0 </td>
+ <td> Check if all programs handle options (at least --help, --version and --usage; don't forget about the shell scripts) </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 1 </td>
+ <td> Check if all translators handle fsysopts </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 1 </td>
+ <td> Check if all translators respond to "settrans -g" </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 1 </td>
+ <td> More tests of this kind </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 2 </td>
+ <td> Fix those of the above who don't work as intended </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 2 </td>
+ <td> Document (in doc/hurd.texi) all undocumented programs (translators as well as programs in utils/ and sutils/ and some others) </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 1 </td>
+ <td> Find a POSIX test suite, run it on GNU/Hurd, report the results </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 1 </td>
+ <td> Find more useful test suites to run </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 3 </td>
+ <td> Update INSTALL-cross </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 2 </td>
+ <td> Check if all the store classes in libstore work (we have many of them, look into the Makefile) </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 4 </td>
+ <td> Fix those who don't work </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 2 </td>
+ <td> Document all still undocumented store classes </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td> 2 </td>
+ <td> The console is pretty new code, it told me it wants to get tested </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
-# <a name="user_level_drivers"> user-level drivers </a>
+Where difficulty 0 means trivial and 4 means tricky; the difficulty has nothing to do with the importance.