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Introduce i_ieefp because FreeBSD on ix86 needs that
[perl5.git] / Todo-5.6
index d220c97..fbaeaae 100644 (file)
--- a/Todo-5.6
+++ b/Todo-5.6
@@ -55,9 +55,13 @@ Locales
 Regexen
    make RE engine thread-safe
    POSIX [=bar=] and [.zap.] would nice too but there's no API for them
-   (=bar= could be done with Unicode, though)
+   (=bar= could be done with Unicode, though, see TR about normalization forms)
    approximate matching
 
+Security
+    use fchown, fchmod (and futimes?) internally when possible
+    use fchdir(how portable?)
+
 Reliable Signals
     custom opcodes
     alternate runops() for signal despatch
@@ -70,8 +74,11 @@ Win32 stuff
 
 Miscellaneous
     add new modules (Archive::Tar, Compress::Zlib, CPAN::FTP?)
+    sub-second sleep? (integrate Time::HiRes?)
+    floating point handling: nans, infinities, fp exception masks, etc
     replace pod2html with new PodtoHtml? (requires other modules from CPAN)
     automate testing with large parts of CPAN
+    Unicode collation?
 
 Ongoing
     keep filenames 8.3 friendly, where feasible