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Message-ID: <20140501083308.7b839c81@vostro>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 08:33:08 +0300
From: Timo Teras <timo.teras@....fi>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com, dalias@...c.org
Subject: Re: Open issues at end of April

On Thu, 1 May 2014 08:17:58 +0300
Timo Teras <timo.teras@....fi> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 20:40:58 -0400
> Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
> 
> > Currently pending things I haven't gotten to yet, or which have open
> > discussion still, seem to be:
> > 
> > - Request for renaming dynamic linker's _start.
> > - max_align_t
> > - Changes for no-legacy-syscall archs
> > - __xmknod and __sysv_signal ABI symbols
> > - fmtmsg
> > 
> > There are also several resolver-related topics which are going to be
> > addressed in the resolver overhaul next month (May).
> > 
> > I believe the ARM build issues have been addressed; let me know if
> > anything remains open there.
> > 
> > I'm planning to release 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 right away with some
> > important fixes (mainly the strstr-family stuff), and work on the
> > above items as part of 1.1.2. Please remind me if there are other
> > pending things I'm forgetting.
> 
> 1. I would need to have cp437 and cp850 in iconv. Otherwise mtools
> cannot accesss fat filesystems, meaning syslinux is broke. I know
> iconv overhaul is scheduled for 1.1.4 with hopefully getting the table
> generation code published. But I think these few legacy codepages
> should be added as a bug fix.
> 
> 2. Possibly also sysconf() fixes: mapping table 0 to return value -1,
> and fixing LONG_BIT should be done.
> 
> 3. I also think having CFI for at least syscall_cpi should be done.
> Debugging without that is a pain.
> 
> 4. Other items in my wish list is "sendmmsg() and recvmmsg()" but as
> discussed it's tricky.
> 
> 5. And I also had the question if for NEEDED dependencies constructors
> should be topologically sorted.
> 
> 1-3 being 'high' priority.

6. Implementing if_nameindex() and getifaddrs() properly. Usable Netlink
version exists (which might still need some fine tuning):
http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/plain/main/musl/1002-reimplement-if_nameindex-and-getifaddrs-using-netlin.patch
Can wait until 1.1.2.

7. To go with 1.1.2 DNS overhaul: adding dns record parsing function:
http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/plain/main/musl/1001-add-basic-dns-record-parsing-functions.patch

- Timo

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