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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-06-26 21:16:17 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-06-26 21:16:17 +0200
commit595fc63c4229813d637c382a5da6cede32d22a18 (patch)
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parent58b2e1204a000fdcbdac42e427c5556dddf40aea (diff)
downloadcoreutils-595fc63c4229813d637c382a5da6cede32d22a18.tar.xz
* TODO: Add item: remove uses of imaxtostr.
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@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ document the following in coreutils.texi:
uptime
Also document the SELinux changes.
+Suggestion from Paul Eggert:
+ More generally, there's not that much use for imaxtostr nowadays,
+ since the inttypes module and newer versions of gettext allow things
+ like _("truncating %s at %" PRIdMAX " bytes") to work portably.
+ I suspect that (if someone cares to take the time) we can remove
+ all instances of imaxtostr and umaxtostr in coreutils and gnulib.
+
cp --recursive: use fts and *at functions to perform directory traversals
in source and destination hierarchy rather than forming full file names.
The latter (current) approach fails unnecessarily when the names