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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-01-16 20:18:47 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-01-16 20:18:47 +0100
commit1a8e00ef270077dea02d7bbc4c8959fad414cde7 (patch)
tree624e570d9313607b46138de4ddd6ebdd61830a09
parentd2e298b45dd00cd328a3819ae4fd5f825ea49c33 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-1a8e00ef270077dea02d7bbc4c8959fad414cde7.tar.xz
* TODO: Add an introduction.
Remove a few entries. Update a few others.
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--TODO21
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b84dc492d..c9dff02f9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-01-16 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+ * TODO: Add an introduction.
+ Remove a few entries. Update a few others.
+
2008-01-13 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Remove each output redirection target before writing to it.
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 473eecac2..df07d4b9f 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+If you're interested in helping, here are some tasks that we've considered
+over the years. Beware: some are quite old and no longer valid. To avoid
+wasting your time by duplicating work or by working on a task that is no
+longer pertinent, please search the mailing list and post your intent
+before embarking on a big project.
+
+==================================================
document the following in coreutils.texi:
runcon
chcon
@@ -20,6 +27,7 @@ printf:
renice: POSIX utility, needs implementing.
suggestion from Karl Berry (among others).
+ Bob Proulx is working on this.
install: add an option to specify the program used to strip binaries.
suggestion from Karl Berry
@@ -43,6 +51,7 @@ See if we can be consistent about where --verbose sends its output:
head, tail, rm, cp, mv, ln, chmod, chown, chgrp, install, ln
These send it to stderr:
shred mkdir split
+ shred must write --verbose output to stderr
readlink is different
Write an autoconf test to work around build failure in HPUX's 64-bit mode.
@@ -115,10 +124,6 @@ Changes expected to go in, someday.
dd patch from Olivier Delhomme
- Andreas Gruenbacher's xattr changes
-
- Apply Bruno Haible's hostname changes
-
test/mv/*: clean up $other_partition_tmpdir in all cases
ls: when both -l and --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir are
@@ -163,9 +168,13 @@ Implement Ulrich Drepper's suggestion to use getgrouplist rather
buggy use of getgrouplist by never passing it a buffer of length zero.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200327
-remove `%s' notation:
+remove `%s' notation (now that they're all gone, add a Makefile.maint sc_
+ rule to ensure no new ones are added):
grep -E "\`%.{,4}s'" src/*.c
+remove all uses of the `register' keyword: Done. add a Makefile.maint rule
+ for this, too.
+
remove or adjust chown's --changes option, since it
can't always do what it currently says it does.
@@ -174,8 +183,6 @@ Adapt tools like wc, tr, fmt, etc. (most of the textutils) to be
significant blocks of logic, yet I also want to incur only minimal
(preferably `no') cost when operating in single-byte mode.
-Remove all uses of the `register' keyword
-
pr's use of nstrftime can make it malloc a very large (up to SIZE_MAX) buffer
ls.c: use gettime rather than clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time