Simplify (and robustify) regular PACKing

[sbcl.git] / contrib / sb-posix / TODO

diff --git a/contrib/sb-posix/TODO b/contrib/sb-posix/TODO
index 4abc9d0..9c0ce34 100644 (file)
--- a/contrib/sb-posix/TODO
+++ b/contrib/sb-posix/TODO
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-1) optional arguments
+1) optional arguments (e.g. OPEN)
 
 3) partial list of section 2 manpages from Debian Linux box: functions
 we may want to consider interfaces for.  Some of the obviously
@@ -8,31 +8,28 @@ in this list does _not_ imply we've definitely decided something needs
 adding.
 
 FD_CLR FD_ISSET FD_SET FD_ZERO accept acct adjtime adjtimex bdflush
-bind break brk cacheflush capget capset chroot clone connect creat
-create_module delete_module execve exit fcntl fdatasync flock fork
-fstat fstatfs fsync ftime ftruncate getcontext getdents getdomainname
-getdtablesize getgroups gethostid gethostname getitimer 
+bind break brk cacheflush capget capset clone connect create_module
+delete_module execve exit flock fstatfs ftime getcontext getdents
+getdomainname getdtablesize getgroups gethostid gethostname getitimer
 getpeername getpriority getrlimit getrusage getsockname getsockopt
-gettimeofday gtty idle init_module ioctl ioctl_list ioperm iopl listen
-llseek lock lseek lstat madvise mincore mknod mlock mlockall 
-modify_ldt mount mprotect mpx mremap msgctl msgget msgop msgrcv msgsnd
-msync munlock munlockall nanosleep nice open pause pipe poll
-prctl pread prof profil pselect ptrace pwrite query_module quotactl
-read readdir readlink readv reboot recv recvfrom recvmsg rename rmdir
-sbrk sched_get_priority_max sched_get_priority_min sched_getparam
+gettimeofday gtty idle init_module ioctl_list ioperm iopl listen
+llseek lock madvise mincore mknod mlock modify_ldt mount mprotect mpx
+mremap msgctl msgget msgop msgrcv msgsnd munlock nanosleep nice pause
+poll prctl pread prof profil pselect ptrace pwrite query_module
+quotactl readv reboot recv recvfrom recvmsg sbrk
+sched_get_priority_max sched_get_priority_min sched_getparam
 sched_getscheduler sched_rr_get_interval sched_setparam
 sched_setscheduler sched_yield select semctl semget semop send
 sendfile sendmsg sendto setcontext setdomainname setgroups sethostid
-sethostname setitimer setpgrp setpriority setrlimit setsid setsockopt
-settimeofday sgetmask shmat shmctl shmdt shmget shmop shutdown
- sigaction sigaltstack sigblock siggetmask sigmask signal sigpause
-sigpending sigprocmask sigreturn sigsetmask sigsuspend sigvec socket
-socketcall socketpair ssetmask stat statfs stime stty swapoff swapon
-symlink sync syscalls sysctl sysfs sysinfo syslog time times truncate
-ulimit umask umount uname ustat utime utimes vfork vhangup wait wait3
-wait4 waitpid write writev
+sethostname setitimer setpriority setrlimit setsockopt settimeofday
+sgetmask shmat shmctl shmdt shmget shmop shutdown sigaction
+sigaltstack sigblock siggetmask sigmask signal sigpause sigpending
+sigprocmask sigreturn sigsetmask sigsuspend sigvec socket socketcall
+socketpair ssetmask statfs stime stty swapoff swapon syscalls sysctl
+sysfs sysinfo times ulimit umount uname ustat vfork vhangup wait3
+wait4 writev
 
-4) In the spec but not implemented: 
+4) In the spec but not implemented:
 
 - buffers
 
@@ -49,5 +46,11 @@ exceptional exit. For example, EINTR, EAGAIN, reading or writing big
 buffers, etc... It may be more efficient to just compare two integers
 than going thru an exception mechanism that will be invoked everytime.
 
+9) proper alien definitions of structures [ possibly an sb-grovel
+problem, but the way we define calls exposes the problem -- see
+readdir() ] [ isn't this done? ]
 
-
+10) some functions (e.g. fdatasync, putenv) have a return value which
+is purely an error indicator.  Currently we're returning the 0 on
+success, but maybe it would make more sense for them to return
+(values).