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diff --git a/gnu/libexec/uucp/TODO b/gnu/libexec/uucp/TODO index a1cc643ab52f5..a0e96bfdc8cc7 100644 --- a/gnu/libexec/uucp/TODO +++ b/gnu/libexec/uucp/TODO @@ -92,11 +92,6 @@ UUCP protocols to do file transfers. This would allow ftp work to be done late at night, and allow neighbors of cooperative Internet sites to use UUCP forwarding for anonymous FTP. -31. - -David Nugent: add a -C option to uucico to only call the system if -there is work to do. - 32. It would be nice if uucico could sleep until a line was available. @@ -194,11 +189,6 @@ expect strings. Use POSIX fcntl locks when possible instead of creating a lock file. -130. - -Chip Salzenberg: BSD lets you override the timeout for a particular -expect string by using a trailing ~. - 138. T. William Wells: BNU apparently uses a file named A.whatever to hold @@ -323,20 +313,6 @@ system and command locks, and do any other type of file. Scott Blachowicz: provide some sort of include mechanism for the configuration files. -162. - -Chris Lewis: add uuxqtpolicy command, probably in config, supporting -the following values which determine when uuxqt should be run: - - never (let cron or something else worry about it) - - perinvocation (when uucico exits for good - current behaviour) - - persite (when uucico terminates a conversation - HDBish) - - periodic (per 5 or 10 incoming X. files - BSDish) - - perturnaround? - -163. - -Sort jobs in the send queue by size. Pretty easy. - 164. Ed Carp: preserve files if uuxqt execution fails. @@ -349,11 +325,6 @@ Marc Sheldon: use exit codes from <sysexits.h> in uux and uucp. Chip Salzenberg: allow chat failure strings to specify a retry time. -167. - -Gregory Bond: allow a dialer sequence for a TCP port, so you can make -a TCP connection to a modem and then dial out. - 168. Jose A. Manas: allow a maximum connect time, after which we try to @@ -421,14 +392,6 @@ number''. Don Phillips: should there be some way to restrict of grade of transfers even when the other system places the call? -179. - -Nickolay Saukh: add something to chat scripts to specify the timeout -for an expect string, e.g. AT\c OK\W3 to wait for 3 seconds. Except -that perhaps the unit should not be seconds. Berkeley apparently uses -~number, not \W number, but I don't see any reason to prevent use of -the ~ character in an expect string. - 180. Nickolay Saukh: if we have received a partial file, request the remote @@ -451,12 +414,6 @@ statement. Optionally check for interrupts in fcopy_file, since it can take a long time to copy a file named in a uucp request. -184. - -Ian Moran: if an attempt is made to a copy a file to a directory which -denies write permission, perhaps the file should be saved somewhere. -It must be saved in a private location, though. - 185. A syntax error in a command received from the remote system should not @@ -536,11 +493,6 @@ to do, and then try again later. This would require a protocol extension. I don't know if it's worth it. The code should be checked to see how well it handles a disk full situation. -196. - -For real adjustability, provide some mechanism for picking the lead -characters to use for the shell scripts, between : and #!. - 197. Try alternate IP addresses if there are any. @@ -571,3 +523,220 @@ Bill Foote: have uuchk check whether a system is defined more than once. 203. + +Eric Ziegast: allow specification of the minimum grade to receive, as +well as the maximum grade. Probably sending a second character after +the -pM argument would work fine. + +204. + +Tom Rushworth: perhaps there should be some program which can be used +to retrieve the current spool directory. Perhaps on option on uustat. + +207. + +James B. O'Connor: use additional messages in the status file when +placing a call, such as Dialing, Chatting, and the like. Slightly +less efficient. + +208. + +When checking whether a file may be received into a directory, perhaps +uucico should check using the real user ID rather than insisting that +the directory be world writable. This should be a policy.h parameter. +This would enable sites which use different uids for each incoming +UUCP login to have better control over security. + +209. + +Jon Vos: add an alias command for ports. + +210. + +Joe Wells: I'd like to have a way so that if the dial chat fails due +to "NO CARRIER", in addition to this log message: + + ERROR: Chat script failed: Got "NO\sCARRIER" + +I would get another log message right next to it that would look like +this: + + ERROR: Chat script failed: 5 "RRING" strings seen + +Ian: I doubt this is worth implementing in uucico, but it might make +sense for an external, or otherwise more independent and controllable, +chat program. + +211. + +Joe Wells: In some cases it would be nice to be able to change the set +of chat-fail strings in the middle of the chat script. Personally, I +think this is too complex for the simple chat scripts currently +implemented. + +212. + +Joe Wells: There should be an option to all programs directing them to +send all debugging output to the log file. This would just involve +calling ulog_to_file at some point just after reporting any usage +messages. + +213. + +Joe Wells: There should be a way to specify the execution directory +used by uuxqt. This would avoid certain sorts of permissions +problems. Some mechanism would still be needed for using multiple +directories. + +214. + +Joe Wells: uuto should be documented. + +215. + +Joe Wells: Perhaps it should be possible to use multiple spool +directories. It would be a lot of work, though. + +216. + +Joe Wells: It should be possible to specify only one of complete or +abort. + +217. + +Dan Everhart: It would be nice if the chat-fail string could affect +the error message reported by uustat, so that uustat could say +something ``Line was busy''. + +218. + +Andrew A. Chernov: Add a chat-char-delay xx configuration parameter, +which has the effect of adding \p after each character, with delay xx. +This is to accommodate modems which can't accept command characters at +a given baud rate. + +219. + +Gert Doering: Provide some mechanism for specifying the maximum length +of a call. Convenient for anonymous UUCP sites. + +220. + +Joe Wells: There should be some way for "cu" to obey user commands +during the dial chat. Right now, the only thing the user can do is +send signals (e.g. type Control-C). This leads to user complaints +that "cu" is not obeying its documentation. + +221. + +Joe Wells: Right now, if there is any failure in the dial or login +chat scripts, the remote system alternate is skipped even though the +cause of the failure may have been the local serial port or modem. +"uucico" will not try another modem with the same remote system +alternate. If the remote system only has one alternate, then it is +skipped entirely. + +Thus, there should be a way to specify that when certain expect +strings are not seen or certain chat-fail strings are seen that the +port is skipped instead of the remote system alternate. + +222. + +Richard H. Gumpertz: Support pipelines in uuxqt. Right now they are +only supported if uux puts in an 'e' line (which it does) and shell +executions are permitted (which they normally are not). It would be +possible to permit restricted pipelines by handling the pipe character +specially and making sure all commands in the pipeline were permitted. + +223. + +Bill Sommerfeld: When dialing out, set the status to DIALING rather +than CONNECTION CLOSED. Setting the status takes a bit of time; it's +hard to tell where the right break-even point is. + +224. + +Joe Wells: Keep track of the last successful incoming call separately +from the last successful outgoing call. Currently the two times are +both put together in the status file. + +225. + +Joe Wells: It would be nice if uustat would provide a way to avoid +bouncing mail that it sent itself, to avoid sending notification +e-mail for notification e-mail. I can't think of a mechanism, though +(using a special grade for uustat does not work because most mail +programs do not provide a mechanism for passing a grade through to +uux). + +226. + +Joe Wells: It would be nice if uustat could know whether it had sent +mail for a particular job, to avoid generating multiple messages for +the job. + +227. + +Joe Wells: It would be nice if dialcode suffixes were supported, as +well as prefixes. + +228. + +Joe Wells: It would be nice to support another spool directory scheme +which split stuff up more to avoid very large directories. This would +be most useful for the files which are named in C. and X. files, +rather than for the C. and X. files themselves (since C. and X. files +are rarely looked up by name). Basically, some sort of partition of +the D. directory is called for. + +229. + +Joe Wells: ``It would be nice if the exit sequence of "cu", where it +runs the complete chat script and then disconnects could be aborted +without disconnecting. (Yes, I know, this is a strange desire.) It +would be nice to be able to reinvoke the dial chat by user command in +"cu". It would be nice to be able to invoke an arbitrary named chat +script in "cu".'' + +230. + +Kevin Johnson: Provide some mechanism such that all requests to a +particular system were automatically forwarded through some other +system. This would be useful to hide details of a non-strongly- +connected network, particularly if the details were subject to change. + +231. + +Gert Doering: Perhaps it should be possible to -r the default for uucp +and uux. This would require adding a new option to force the +invocation of uucico. + +232. + +Mark Davies: spaces are not handled correctly in the -a argument of +uux. If an E command is generated, the requestor address is not +quoted correctly, nor is it parsed correctly. If an execution file is +generated, the R line is not parsed correctly. + +233. + +Emmanuel Mogenet: provide some mechanism for a maximum number of +garbage bytes during a chat script before giving up. + +234. + +Scott Ballantyne: The address for a TCP port should be separate from +the phone number, so that a TCP dialer can use \D. + +235. + +Peter Wemm: The 'i' protocol default parameters do not work at 2400 +baud, because the time it takes to transfer half the packets is less +than the timeout time. Of course people can always change the +parameters, but it would be nice if this were dealt with somehow. + +236. + +Andrew A. Chernov: Perhaps uuxqt should log when it terminates. + +237. |