source: trunk/doc/Todo.os2@ 1356

$Id: Todo.os2 1273 2004-02-20 12:15:50Z bird $

This file contains some very rough lists of things to look into.
Contributions are very much wanted on these topics.


List of things to implement:
    o Inheritance of non-standard file handles (sockets).
    o fork().
    o vfork().
    o All the missing UNIX signals.
    o pthread.
        o Make fast string functions in assembly, in particular: strncpy
        o memrchr()
        o stpncpy()
        o getrusage()
        o mkstemps()

List of things to investigate (picked from configure runs):
    o checking whether declaration is required for errno... no
    o checking for POSIXized ISC... no
    o checking for values.h... (cached) no
    o checking for direct.h... no
    o checking for mktemp... no
    o checking for thread.h... no
    o checking for pthread.h... no
    o checking for atoq... no
    o checking whether getrlimit is declared... no
    o checking whether setrlimit is declared... no
    o checking whether getrusage is declared... no
    o psignal
    o checking for nl_types.h... (cached) no
    o checking if gcc.exe static flag  works... (cached) no
    o checking for setitimer... no
    o checking for working mmap... (cached) no
    o checking for madvise... no
    o checking for mprotect... no
    o checking for ISO C99 support in <math.h>... no
    o checking for ISO C99 support in <stdlib.h>... no
    o checking for additional ISO C99 support in <wchar.h>... no
    o checking for enabled ISO C99 support... no
    o checking for endian.h... no
    o checking for __builtin_sqrtf linkage... no
    o checking for __builtin_cosf linkage... no
    o checking for __builtin_sinf linkage... no
    o checking for isinf declaration... no
    o checking for _isinf declaration... no
    o checking for finite declaration... no
    o checking for _finite declaration... no
    o checking for sincos declaration... no
    o checking for _sincos declaration... no
    o checking for fpclass declaration... no
    o checking for _fpclass declaration... no
    o checking for qfpclass declaration... no
    o checking for _qfpclass declaration... no
    o checking for float trig functions... no
    o checking for float round functions... no