Re: Is anybody working on extending libc?(and other questions)

Nick did some more C library routines--memXXX() and strXXX() ones,
if I recall correctly. You're welcome to submit more routines; I
ask that you supply them as patches for existing files (don't forget
prototypes for the .h!) and new files in their entirety.

We're trying to keep coding styles aligned on a per-subsystem basis.
I've recently written a document which is basically Henry Spencer's
"10 Rules of C" followed by some explicit examples. If you're not
familiar with this style of coding, I can forward you a copy of the
document. Plus or minus my own fallibility, the current kernel and
library code should also be useful as a guide.

>Now that I'm up and running I was thinking about porting some tools to
>VSTa. I tried to compile a make for native VSTa but there are some things
>missing in libc. Is anybody working on extending libc?
>If not, I'd be willing to do so.(I don't have this much experience in
>writing libs but I got the Posix Programmer's manual and would like to
>implement the missing features)

>Also I'd like to work on CD-ROM IS9660 Filessystem and a driver for my
>Soundblaster CD-ROM.

Soundblaster uses a proprietary SCSI interface, I believe. Unless
they've changed their policy recently, I don't think they want to document
the board-level registers. They just want you to buy a DOS driver. :-(
If you buy a PAS-16 instead I have a contact at MediaVision who can
supply technical documentation on their SCSI port instead.

Until we have a SCSI driver of some sort a CDROM filesystem driver would
not be worth writing, since you'd have no way to test it!

                                Andy
Received on Tue Aug 31 08:15:56 1993