Re: [libposix-development] Warm-up task

[David R. <dr...@gm...>]

Something weird seems to be going on with the list. I'm only getting
mails from Henrique and not anyone else. Anyone else seeing this?

-Dave

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Henrique Almeida <hd...@gm...> wrote:
>
>  Ok, that was FAST. :-D Chris, there are some tags that don't describe
> options. "OB" just means obsolescent. asctime and asctime_r are obsolescent,
> but MANDATORY. Also, "CX" just mean "C extension", it's safe to omit that.
> Please fix the tags. Also, you don't seem to have joined the mailing list,
> please join, so that I don't need to forward the messages to you.
>
>  The full option list is available at:
>
>  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/unistd.h.html
>
>  For anyone that has spare time, you can get more 50 functions to classify.
> ;-) Just send a note to the list, so that there's no overlap.
>
> 2009/5/28 Chris Forbes <ch...@fa...>
>>
>> Hi All
>>
>> There's only 41 functions in the standard starting with A, but here they
>> are :)
>>
>> --Chris
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Henrique Almeida [mailto:hd...@gm...]
>> Sent: Friday, 29 May 2009 2:37 a.m.
>> To: lib...@li...; Chris Forbes
>> Subject: Warm-up task
>>
>>  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...
>
>
>
> --
> Henrique Dante de Almeida
> hd...@gm...
>
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