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
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 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 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
- new console is basically done
- needs integration of course
- X switching support
- there is certainly more to do ...
Wolfgang list of Easy tasks on July 28, 2002:
| Difficulty | Task |
|---|---|
| 0 | Check if all programs handle options (at least --help, --version and --usage; don't forget about the shell scripts) |
| 1 | Check if all translators respond to "settrans -g" |
| 1 | More tests of this kind |
| 2 | Fix those of the above who don't work as intended |
| 2 | Document (in doc/hurd.texi) all undocumented programs (translators as well as programs in utils/ and sutils/ and some others) |
| 1 | Find a POSIX test suite, run it on GNU/Hurd, report the results |
| 1 | Find more useful test suites to run |
| 3 | Update INSTALL-cross |
| 2 | Check if all the store classes in libstore work (we have many of them, look into the Makefile) |
| 4 | Fix those who don't work |
| 2 | Document all still undocumented store classes |
| 2 | The console is pretty new code, it told me it wants to get tested |
Where difficulty 0 means trivial and 4 means tricky; the difficulty has nothing to do with the importance.