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Annotation of researchv10no/cmd/dist/TODO, revision 1.1.1.1

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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