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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.
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