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@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@ -GNU Hurd Task List Version 1.18. Last updated 21 August 1997. +GNU Hurd Task List Version 1.19. Last updated 15 April 1998. -If you would like to work on one of these, please contact -thomas@gnu.ai.mit.edu. It's important that you let me know what's being -worked on, because someone else might also be interested, and you -should coordinate work. +If you would like to work on one of these, please contact tb@mit.edu. +It's important that you let me know what's being worked on, because +someone else might also be interested, and you should coordinate work. Items that we want done with more priority are marked with !!!. @@ -15,8 +14,6 @@ General system work the system, and to submit necessary ports to the maintainers of those programs. - * See how much of X compiles. - * Do whatever magic is necessary for Perl to take advantage of all the nifty Hurd features that Unix doesn't have. @@ -115,7 +112,8 @@ Hurd work (these are brief descriptions; thomas can give more information): !!! * We need some existing shell programs changed to do Hurd things: - like id, su, ls, tar, cpio, etc. + like id, su, ls, tar, cpio, etc. Some of this work has already been + done, but more is still needed. * Handy shell programs to send msgport msgs, and change default init ports and ints. @@ -125,15 +123,11 @@ Hurd work (these are brief descriptions; thomas can give more information): * A system for write, send, talkd and so forth to bleep users; this should be integrated with the utmp replacement above. - * X. (Porting XFree86 should not be hard.) - * A filesystem for /tmp that uses virtual memory instead of disk. (Roland has some ideas about this.) * Filesystem implementations (using libdiskfs) for other popular formats. Importantly, MSDOS FAT format. - - * Transparent FTP translator. * A fancy terminal driver that uses readline and supports detach/attach. |