Re: Pending patches/issues before 0.9.15 release?

[Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>]

Some updates:

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 08:30:56PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> >From Timo Teräs/fabled/Alpine:
> 
> http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/plain/main/musl/1001-add-rfc3678-mcast-structs.patch
> http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/plain/main/musl/1002-add-linux-tcp-state-enums.patch
> http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/plain/main/musl/1003-add-basic-dns-record-parsing-functions.patch

1001 and 1002 have been committed. 1003 should probably be reviewed
and refactored along with the resolver refactor/overhaul after 1.0.

> >From Michael Forney:
> 
> - simplify strcmp
> - add putspent
> - fix putgrent (missing newline, error handling)
> - dn_expand fix
> - dn_comp stub
> - getopt_long abbreviated options

I'm waiting for minor patch updates for putspent and dn_comp.
getopt_long still needs review. I think the rest have been committed.
There's also a new fgetspent patch that I hope to get included.

> >From Paul Schutte:
> 
> - adding version reporting to ld.so (and elsewhere?)

Still under discussion how best to do it.

> >From nsz's review of pkgsrc failures:
> 
> - getloadavg
> - NO_ADDRESS in netdb.h
> - c_ispeed and c_ospeed in termios
> - termio.h
> - net/if_packet.h
> - ffsl
> - sys/perm.h
> 
> (Note that this is just a selection of topics from the thread which
> looked like they were easy to address on the musl side and which might
> improve practical compatibility, but it's not 100% clear to me that
> they should all be added.)

Some members of the community expressed a sentiment that adding new
things like this should wait until after the release if they're not
critical, even if they're small (like most of the above are).

> And some misc stuff:
> 
> - Revisiting NULL definition

I have not done this yet, but I think it could be done before release
and I'd rather change it now than as a new change in 1.0...

Rich