1.0.4.23: sb-grovel x86-64/darwin fix

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

diff --git a/contrib/sb-posix/TODO b/contrib/sb-posix/TODO
index 4abc9d0..c6249c1 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
@@ -8,29 +8,29 @@ 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
+bind break brk cacheflush capget capset chroot 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 
+gettimeofday gtty idle init_module ioctl_list ioperm iopl listen
+llseek lock 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
+munlock munlockall nanosleep nice pause poll
 prctl pread prof profil pselect ptrace pwrite query_module quotactl
-read readdir readlink readv reboot recv recvfrom recvmsg rename rmdir
+read readlink 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
+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
+socketcall socketpair ssetmask statfs stime stty swapoff swapon
+syscalls sysctl sysfs sysinfo times
+ulimit umount uname ustat vfork vhangup wait3
+wait4 write writev
 
 4) In the spec but not implemented: 
 
@@ -49,5 +49,11 @@ 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).