-[21] The nscd program and the stubs in the libc should be changed so
- that each program uses only one socket connect. Take a look at
- http://www.cygnus.com/~drepper/nscd.html
-
-[22] It should be possible to have the information gconv-modules in
- a simple database which is faster to access. Using libdb is probably
- overkill and loading it would probably be slower than reading the
- plain text file. But a file format with a simple hash table and
- some data it points to should be fine. Probably it should be
- two tables, one for the aliases, one for the mappings. The code
- should start similar to this:
-
- if (stat ("gconv-modules", &stp) == 0
- && stat ("gconv-modules.db", %std) == 0
- && stp.st_mtime < std.st_mtime)
- {
- ... use the database ...
- {
- else
- {
- ... use the plain file if it exists, otherwise the db ...
- }
+
+[23] The `strptime' function needs to be completed. This includes among
+ other things that it must get teached about timezones. The solution
+ envisioned is to extract the timezones from the ADO timezone
+ specifications. Special care must be given names which are used
+ multiple times. Here the precedence should (probably) be according
+ to the geograhical distance. E.g., the timezone EST should be
+ treated as the `Eastern Australia Time' instead of the US `Eastern
+ Standard Time' if the current TZ variable is set to, say,
+ Australia/Canberra or if the current locale is en_AU.
+
+
+[27] ...deleted...