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<li><a href="#p-rfc3442">RFC3442 support</a></li>
<li><a href="#p-sysinstall">Sysinstall</a></li>
<li><a href="#p-vi-utf8">Unicode support in vi</a></li>
<li><a href="#p-libumem">Port libumem to FreeBSD</a></li>
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<h3>Additional Information</h3>
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<a name="p-libumem"></a>
<h2>Port libumem to FreeBSD</h2>
<p>Solaris 9 and later versions include <code>libumem</code>, a user
space slab allocator that includes debugging features we may want to
have on FreeBSD too.</p>
<p>Online references for <code>libumem</code> are (in suggested reading
order):</p>
<ul>
<li>Robert Benson.
"<em>Identifying Memory Management Bugs Within Applications Using
the libumem Library</em>".
Technical article at
<a href="http://access1.sun.com/">Sun Developer Technical Support</a>.
<a href="http://access1.sun.com/techarticles/libumem.html">http://access1.sun.com/techarticles/libumem.html</a>.
2003.</li>
<li>Jeff Bonwick.
"<em>The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel</em>".
USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference.
June 6-10, 1994.
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/bonwick.html">http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/bonwick.html</a></li>
<li>John Adams and Jeff Bonwick.
"<em>Magazines and Vmem: Extending the Slab Allocator to Many CPUs
and Arbitrary Resources</em>".
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix01/index.html">USENIX 2001</a>.
<a href="http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix01/bonwick.html">http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix01/bonwick.html</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Good C knowledge (reading and writing).</li>
<li>Experience with debugging allocation problems.</li>
</ul>
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