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Annotation of researchv10no/cmd/dist/TODO, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: * logging: log who spools what packages contain what, what machines download.
        !             2: * logging: log in connect & dispatch
        !             3: * logging: log connect failures!!!!
        !             4: * announce it when transmit aborts because the %d.busy file exists
        !             5: * must allow the superuser to dist
        !             6: * identify and eliminate places that silently die horribly
        !             7: * notifier and ideas for notifier configuration
        !             8: * implement chkperm() and tryperm()
        !             9: * write man pages: dist[158], [qu]args, {mk,ins}dist
        !            10: * document about setting it up
        !            11: * paper about how it works and why certain choices were made
        !            12: * pervasive error checking/cleanup in shell scripts
        !            13: * identify v10-specific commands that we need to include (getopt, seq, others?)
        !            14: * a pathname-quoted version of pwd
        !            15: * in the protocol, send the Files list to the remote system
        !            16: * support the -v option everywhere
        !            17: * option to dist -r to fake installation or give an error (for the notifier)
        !            18: * use dist to recursively install itself
        !            19: * setuid scheme to protect spool directories
        !            20: * write better mkfiles (?)
        !            21: * timeouts on network reads/writes (?)
        !            22: * look for loose ends
        !            23: * improve usage messages in shell scripts

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