From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/4272 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Pending patches/issues before 0.9.15 release? Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 17:02:33 -0500 Message-ID: <20131123220233.GA24286@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20131121013056.GA2128@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385244160 31198 80.91.229.3 (23 Nov 2013 22:02:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 22:02:40 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-4276-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sat Nov 23 23:02:46 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VkLHq-0002L2-4x for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 23:02:46 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 3547 invoked by uid 550); 23 Nov 2013 22:02:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 3539 invoked from network); 23 Nov 2013 22:02:45 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131121013056.GA2128@brightrain.aerifal.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:4272 Archived-At: 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