[Libposix-development] Warm-up task

[Henrique A. <hd...@gm...>]

 First of all, I hope the message reaches everyone, I'm not sure if
the mailing list is working well, so please reply to this post if
you've received it.

 We'll start the project with a simple task. During the project we'll
need to mantain the list with the status of each function in the
project (that is, if it has been implemented, tested, etc.). We have a
little more than 1.000 functions to implement. The standard
distinguishes mandatory and optional functions and, for optional
functions, to which option group they belong. Let's start with the
following: classify 50 functions as either mandatory or optional, and,
if optional, take note of which option group the function belongs.
Also, for each function you classify, attribute an expected difficulty
grade (easy, medium, hard) for its implementation. Finally, take note
if the function is classified as obsolescent (tagged as "OB") or not.

 You can see if the function is mandatory or optional by looking at
its prototype. If there's no remark in the prototype, or if there's a
remark that doesn't have an option group tag, it's mandatory.
Mandatory functions may have extra optional functionality in its
description, but they're mandatory anyway. If there's a remark with an
option code in the function prototype, the function is optional and
the tag represents the option group.

 For example, the "atoi" function is mandatory and has an easy
implementation, while the "crypt" is optional, belongs to the XSI
option group and has a medium implementation. "dprintf" has a "CX" tag
which is not optional, so dprintf is mandatory and has a hard
implementation.

 The full function list is on the "System Interfaces" volume of the standard.

 Chris Forbes, take 50 functions starting with letter A
 David Rocamora, take 50 functions starting with letter F
 Guillermo Freschi, take 50 functions starting with letter K
 Guilherme Mazzela, take 50 functions starting with letter P
 I'll take 50 functions starting with letter U.

-- 
 Henrique Dante de Almeida
 hd...@gm...