Tasks for Volunteers
Michael Elizabeth Chastain
<mec@duracef.shout.net>
Sat 18 Nov 1995

Copyright 1995 Michael Chastain
Licensed under the Gnu Public License, Version 2



Here are tasks which I need and other people can do:

    Compile with g++ 2.7.0 or g++ 2.7.1 and send me the output.  The
    best format is: 'script ; make clean ; make -k'.

    Compile as ELF and try it out.  I'd like to see 'libMec.a' become a
    shared ELF library -- it would speed up my build times!  You can
    still trace only 'a.out' executables and shared libraries, though.

    Find a dynamically-loadable configuration language that can
    encompass 'RiLineLix', as much of 'ScLineLix' as you can get, and
    the size and pointer-to-C-function parts of 'TySegEnumLix', so that
    I can use it to load part of the machine description at run-time.
    Send me a pointer to this language.

    Implement some of the things in 'task-kernel-lix.txt' and get them
    accepted into the Linux kernel.

    Proof-read the code and send me bug reports and comments on it.

    Read the docs, send me comments, and tell me what additional docs
    you want.

    Run trace and control on lots of your programs.  Send me feedback.
    Send me test programs.  Gzip + uuencode trace files and send me some
    of those!

    Send me detailed documentation on 'vm86' and whether I can replay
    it.

    Send me literature references on other trace-and-replay programs,
    both academic and commercial.

    Test the IPC system calls.  Send me IPC test programs.

    Write man pages for Linux (if you can).  Here is a list of man pages
    I've found which are missing or have obsolete information:

	adjtimex.2 alarm.2 clone.2 idle.2 msync.2 readv.2 recvmsg.2
	sendmsg.2 signal.2 socketcall.2 sysinfo.2 ulimit.2 writev.2
