-*- Mode: Outline -*- Things to be done on Hurd, that we should probably not punt to a volunteer. See `tasks', the exported task list. * RMS dictates: ** O_RDONLY==0 ** "user-friendly" naming scheme for /dev * Emacs M-x shell seems to start all the ptys. * Settle termcap v. curses with rms et. al. * Contents of =pending-changes. * Make sure all the pieces of the Hurd have adequate version stuff. * syslogify everything * fix root dependencies in filesystem, network, etc. * Profile things * Make for easier installation * Write coding standards suggestions for Hurd * Fix emacs/src/unexelf.c to deal with occasional lack of mmap * Libraries ** general: *** fsys_get_options should return: prog name in argv[0]; non-option program args, e.g. the diskfs device, or nfs mount *** Enable compilation without -O ** libmom work: *** Hack interface definitions so that args are mom-ish *** Change libports and libpager to be mom-ish *** Change servers to be mom-ish ** libc: *** Version of tmpfile that takes a directory *** Hurd versions of tmpfile that don't create transient files *** flink *** make sure profiling works *** implement revoke once io_revoke is added. ** libports: *** Get rid of general `uninibited-rpcs' mechanism in libports, & just special-case interrupt_operation. *** Drop wire parms to manage-operations; instead have a new-thread hook function. ** libstore: *** test it and make diskfs use it. ** libfsserver/libnetfs: *** convert libnetfs to libfsserver ** libnetfs *** Support --readonly, --writable, and --update ** libpager: *** Put user-defined fns into a callback struct passed to pager_create. *** Make libpager paging interface able to read/write multiple pages at once. *** Check all users of pager-create.c to make sure they DTRT when it returns null. (requires changing libdiskfs to deal with null returns from diskfs_get_filemap). ** libshouldbeinlibc: *** Merge contents of libshouldbeinlibc that belong there into libc. Rename the rest to libhurdutil or somesuch. *** argp: find some way to flag certain long options as only matching exactly (add this as OPT_EXACT); use this on the built in option --program-name. *** Rewrite argp to do its own parsing. Preferably, split up libc's getopt into more primitive functions, which both argp and getopt can call. ** libdiskfs *** Add the short-circuited-but-not-builtin translator startup code from dir-lookup to fsys_getroot. Compare and match carefully these two routines and then share common code. *** Handle dead name notifications on execserver ports. *** Deal correctly with setting the translators on /servers/exec. *** Implement file_notice_changes. *** Implement async I/O. *** Think of a way to have when-to-sync-nodes be more flexible so it can be done right for each format. *** Check when-to-sync-nodes carefully against BSD 4.4 ufs implementation. *** Provide for MNT_SYNCHRONOUS, MNT_NOEXEC, MNT_NOSUID, MNT_NODEV, etc. *** Implement io_restrict_auth correctly. *** Use libstore. *** Use off_t correctly. *** Add a consistent message printing facility for filesystems to use (syslog, but takes special care when the root file system?). *** Some of diskfs_readonly_changed in ufs/ext2fs should be in generic routines. *** fsys_get_options should return the disk name. *** Add `author_tracks_uid' flag to struct node, and use it in places that modify author/uid. Initialized to 0. ** libfshelp *** Put functions here to deal with directory and file change notifications? *** Translator startup should provide a more useful stdin/stdout than nothing? *** Add functions to do permission checking and change libdiskfs et. al. to use them. ** libpager *** Change interface to be more efficient with multi-page data-return calls. *** Remove pagers from portset if there are too many incoming requests to avoid forking too many threads. *** flush functions don't actually force pending delayed copies. (and in fact, they seem to block if a delayed copy is wired down) ** libtrivfs *** Allow for read/write/exec to be passed down. *** Implement file_exec when appropriate. *** Provide for the visible owner, etc., to be held in command-line args instead of the underlying node, when it's important. ** libps *** Wizzior columnation (autosizing?) *** Make getters more robust. * Servers ** write default pager ** Implement goaway in all the servers that don't already have it. ** (init) sleep on spinning gettys ** Add calls to various servers to return interesting statistical information. ** Test new-fifo & make it fifo. ** Login/utmp? ** fifos are flaky. ?? Details ?? ** pflocal: make peer addresses work? ** zero (/dev/null) doesn't do access right; probably many in trans/ too. ** proc: *** Add a version of proc_wait usable by non-parent processes, and use it in gdb; maybe just a flag WNOREAP to proc_wait that doesn't reap and allows anyone to use it. *** Add proc_get_tty() [returns tty opened with no flags], so that ps can be non-suid. *** Remove hostname/hostid functions *** add timeouts to all the msg_* calls proc makes. ** pfinet *** Allow multiple pfinets to arp on the same ethernet interface for different IP addresses. *** Diagnose why shutdown doesn't close TCP channels properly or reliably. *** select for read on a UDP socket seems never to return. ** nfs *** Implement async I/O *** Finish work to turn on paging. *** Finish excl arg work in link and rename. *** Implement TCP nfs. *** Implement V3 nfs. *** Implement nqnfs. *** Add Hurd-specific calls. ** devio: *** Make a server (/servers/devio?) to share multiple devio nodes? *** Use libstore. *** Make block devices work again. *** MAKEDEV should be able to make physical terminal devs. *** Get rid of global DEVICE variable and use the trivfs control hack. *** Serverify, ala new-fifo. ** ufs: *** Implement clustering, a la 4.4-lite sys/kern/vfs_cluster.c. *** Make file_get_storage_info work for files with indirect blocks. *** Optimizations: pager.c/inode.c/libdiskfs count pager refs separately and then save mappings in _diskfs_rdwr_internal and dir.c *** Problems with DT_* hack: **** Fix multiple-links DT_* bug. **** Deal with change of type which should update directory. **** Type is also wrong for translated nodes... *** Roland sez: ENOSPC detection flaky in ufs. Try write of >page, non-page-multiple, when free space allows write size but not round_page (write size). ** ext2fs *** Support chflags/st_flags and convert to/from ext2 flags on disk. *** Try to write directories with 512-byte record boundaries. *** Maybe file_pager_write_page should be able to accurately reproduce holes... *** Add byte-swapping. *** Implement file_getfh and fsys_getfile. ** crash *** Write core files. * Utilities ** Write a real mount program. ** settrans needs an option to make the active go away without using goaway. ** Make id, et. al. work with no/multiple uids. ** Make things work with the `nobody' mode bits: chmod, ls, ... ** Make things work better with translators, e.g., tar... ** Fix bash to turn on interrupts around syscalls more generally, especially chdir. ** Make su work. ** Bug: `hostname' command with no /etc/hostname hangs the system with disk light going. ** talk doesn't work ** login: Make --retry work correctly when invoked via a suid shell script by other than root (it doesn't now if the script specifies --retry="$0" because the exec server will use /dev/fd/N for name, and child_lookup() doesn't supply more than fds 0-2). ** fsck should use (not-yet-added) fsys_get_options returned device instead of /etc/fstab. ** Write/port the various helpful mach info programs in UX (vminfo, etc). ** ps: *** ps should timeout quickly (one second?) on non-responsive message ports. *** help displays for: stat letters, format specs. *** Add head/tail options; --match? ** gdb: *** Add various mach convenience features (vminfo, &c). *** Be even more vigilant about noticing new threads. In particular: **** For mach-indep thread commands, before validating against internal thread list. *** read core files ** nfsd *** Implement TCP nfs. *** Implement V3 nfs. *** Implement nqnfs. *** Add Hurd-specific calls. *** writes don't seem to work properly ** fsck.ufs -- zero-length directories and attachment into lost+found still don't work; link counts seem to be mangled. * Mach: ** Have some analogue of /dev/klog that syslogd can get kernel messages from (maybe there is already?); the boot file system, and other people deeming it too risk to attempt to contact syslogd can use it too? ** Add a startup timestamp to tasks, and have some way of fetching it.