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1$Id: TODO 153 2009-06-02 22:28:07Z tim $
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3If you are interested in contributing to this project, here's a few
4things you could look into:
5
6 - Currently there is no way on the command line to search for exotic
7   paths/types.  For instance, if reglookup encounters an unknown VK
8   type, it just prints it out in Hex.  However, if you wanted to search
9   specifically for that type, there is no way to do it.  Similarly, it
10   isn't possible to specify certain binary or weird characters in
11   paths.  Reglookup should take the user path and unquote each path
12   component using the \xQQ syntax prior to searching.
13
14 - It might be nice to have a way to filter results by security
15   descriptor information.  Maybe by MTIME as well.
16
17 - Testing, testing, and more testing.  reglookup needs to be tested on
18   NT/XP/2k3/Vista.  A regression test suite would be nice too.  Some
19   thoughts on this include a script which randomly fuzzes an existing
20   registry file, and tries to detect crashes of reglookup when parsing
21   it.  Another test script might randomly truncate an existing registry
22   file, which will help improve reglookup's parsing on fragmentary
23   files.
24
25 - Build system.  I do not wish to use automake/autoconf in this
26   project.  I have also now decided that make is painful to use for
27   everything.  I'd like to switch to a suite of shell scripts driven by
28   minimal make rules.  If you got any ideas on this, shoot them my way.
29
30 - Unicode support still needs improvement.  While parsing strings seems
31   to be decent, UTF-8 output would be nice.  Need support for
32   UTF-16LE key and value names.  To do this, the UTF conversion
33   functions need to be moved to regfi.
34
35 - The interface between reglookup.c and regfi.c is much better than it
36   used to be, but the parsing of data objects needs to be moved into the
37   library.  The quoting syntax should stay in reglookup/reglookup-recover
38   but the basic parsing of data types into proper structures should
39   happen in the library so that they are accessible to other users of the
40   library.
41
42 - Develop and solidify regfi API.  Regfi should be better documented and
43   eventually needs a set of Python wrappers.
44
45 - Documentation.  The security descriptor output format needs to be
46   documented.  Also, function contracts should be added to the
47   lower-level functions of regfi.c.
48
49 - The smb_deps.h and smb_deps.c content is almost eliminated.  Just need
50   to integrate parts that are being kept into regfi or other modules.
51
52 - Need to figure out a reasonably correct way to convert UTF-16LE charaters
53   to ASCII under Windows/MingW or other platforms that don't have proper
54   libiconv support yet.  Then a build-time option or autodetection can
55   dictate which version of conversion function is used.
56
57 - Grep through the source for 'XXX', and you'll find more.
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