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fixed an incorrect malloc in range_list.c
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1$Id: TODO 122 2008-08-09 20:24:01Z 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 - Testing, testing, and more testing.  reglookup needs to be tested on
15   NT/XP/2k3/Vista.  A regression test suite would be nice too.  Some
16   thoughts on this include a script which randomly fuzzes an existing
17   registry file, and tries to detect crashes of reglookup when parsing
18   it.  Another test script might randomly truncate an existing registry
19   file, which will help improve reglookup's parsing on fragmentary
20   files.
21
22 - Build system.  I do not wish to use automake/autoconf in this
23   project.  I have also now decided that make is painful to use for
24   everything.  I'd like to switch to a suite of shell scripts driven by
25   minimal make rules.  If you got any ideas on this, shoot them my way.
26
27 - Unicode support still needs improvement.  While parsing strings seems
28   to be decent, UTF-8 output would be nice.
29
30 - The interface between reglookup.c and regfi.c is much better than it
31   used to be, but the iter2Stack function needs to be moved into the
32   library, which means the \xQQ quoting syntax will have to go with it.
33   This syntax will need to be more carefully documented if it's going
34   to be a part of the library.
35
36 - NK/VK/SK record caching.  Right now, HBINs and perhaps SK records are
37   cached, but it's pretty haphazard, and NK/VK records are repeatedly
38   re-parsed.  A generic caching library should be introduced which can
39   cache many of these records with a specific memory limit in mind. 
40   I think this will speed things up greatly.
41
42 - It might be nice to have a way to filter results by security
43   descriptor information.  Maybe by MTIME as well.
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 stuff in smb_deps.h and smb_deps.c needs to be cleaned up.  The
50   eventual goal is to have it all either integrated into regfi, or to
51   be eliminated, or broken out into small supporting libraries, as
52   necessary.  It is currently just a jumble of old Samba code that I
53   haven't decided where to put yet.
54
55 - At least one user reported that they use reglookup on a Windows host
56   through Cygwin, but after version 0.3.0 came out, the dependency on
57   libiconv caused that to break.  libiconv seems to be a portability
58   issue on other platforms as well.  However, it's interface is a POSIX
59   standard, and I think I'd like to keep it around.  Perhaps it would
60   be nice if reglookup could be cross-compiled using MinGW.  Then a
61   binary could be distributed for that platform.  This app was never
62   meant for Windows though, so this isn't a high priority.
63
64 - Grep through the source for 'XXX', and you'll find more.
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