Explain why it sometimes looks like pass() fails.

[pintos-anon] / TODO

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-* Userprog project:
+* Get rid of rox--causes more trouble than it's worth
+
+* Reconsider command line arg style--confuses everyone.
+
+* pintos script doesn't (always?) delete temp disks
+
+* Finish writing tour.
+
+
+
+
+
+* process_death test needs improvement
+
+* Internal tests.
 
-  - Move `join' implementation here, from `threads' project, to help
-    normalize the project difficulties.
+* Improve automatic interpretation of exception messages.
 
-  - The semantics of the join system call should change so that it
-    only returns the exit code once.
+* Userprog project:
 
   - Mark read-only pages as actually read-only in the page table.  Or,
     since this was consistently rated as the easiest project by the
@@ -18,9 +30,14 @@
     Alternately we could just remove the synchronization on pid
     selection and check that students fix it.
 
-* Documentation:
+* Filesys project:
 
-  - Finish writing tour.
+  - Need a better way to measure performance improvement of buffer
+    cache.  Some students reported that their system was slower with
+    cache--likely, Bochs doesn't simulate a disk with a realistic
+    speed.
+
+* Documentation:
 
   - Add "Digging Deeper" sections that describe the nitty-gritty x86
     details for the benefit of those interested.
@@ -34,23 +51,10 @@
 
     . Low-level x86 stuff, like paged page tables.
 
-    . Other good ideas.
-
-  - mmap/munmap should use segment IDs like Nachos.  Too hard
-    otherwise.
-
-  - Add src/testcases/vm, src/testcases/filesys and make it clear to use
-    them?
-
-* Tests:
+    . Specifics on how to implement sbrk, malloc.
 
-  - Release some of them.
-
-  - The threads, userprog, vm test source files could use
-    factorization and cleanup along the lines of fslib in the filesys
-    tests.
+    . Other good ideas.
 
-  - The p1-4.c testcase needs significant tuning.  Currently it takes
-    too long (especially when SHOW_PROGRESS is turned on) and doesn't
-    show significant improvement.
+    . opendir/readdir/closedir
 
+    . everything needed for getcwd()