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-rw-r--r-- | hurd/open_issues/cvs_todo_file.mdwn | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | hurd/open_issues/libfshelp_in_hurdlibs.mdwn | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | hurd/open_issues/some_todo_list.mdwn | 119 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | hurd/open_issues/wrong_reply_message_id.mdwn | 15 |
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diff --git a/hurd/open_issues/cvs_tasks_file.mdwn b/hurd/open_issues/cvs_tasks_file.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9a053e33 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/open_issues/cvs_tasks_file.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free +Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +The canonical [tasks +file](http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/~checkout~/hurd/hurd/tasks?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain) +from the CVS archive. diff --git a/hurd/open_issues/cvs_todo_file.mdwn b/hurd/open_issues/cvs_todo_file.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..958502e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/open_issues/cvs_todo_file.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free +Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +The canonical [TODO +file](http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/~checkout~/hurd/hurd/TODO?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain) +from the CVS archive. diff --git a/hurd/open_issues/libfshelp_in_hurdlibs.mdwn b/hurd/open_issues/libfshelp_in_hurdlibs.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7717cef8 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/open_issues/libfshelp_in_hurdlibs.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[libtrivfs]] seems to use [[libfshelp]], but doesn't have it listed in +`HURDLIBS`. Should change that? Same for [[libnetfs]] and [[libdiskfs]]? diff --git a/hurd/open_issues/some_todo_list.mdwn b/hurd/open_issues/some_todo_list.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d9aab4d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/open_issues/some_todo_list.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free +Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +This todo is primarily targetted at the Hurd proper +and applications that rely on the Hurd interfaces. + +* 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. + +* tmpfs +* ppp +* unionfs/stowfs +* supermount translator + +Related: [[KnownHurdLimits]] + +From Marcus, 2002: + +* 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 ... + +Wolfgang list of [Easy tasks](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-hurd/2002-July/006413.html) on July 28, 2002: + +<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> + +Where difficulty 0 means trivial and 4 means tricky; the difficulty has nothing to do with the importance. diff --git a/hurd/open_issues/wrong_reply_message_id.mdwn b/hurd/open_issues/wrong_reply_message_id.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d9db996c --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/open_issues/wrong_reply_message_id.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + + <tschwinge> # settrans -P -a /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i eth0 -a 192.168.10.61 -g 192.168.10.1 -m 255.255.255.0 + <tschwinge> Translator pid: 2289 + <tschwinge> Pausing... + <tschwinge> pfinet: /build/buildd/hurd-20080607/build-tree/hurd/libports/create-internal.c:115: _ports_create_port_internal: Unexpected error: (ipc/mig) wrong reply message ID. + <neal> it would be nice to print out the id when those sorts of errors occur. |