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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-01-09 18:28:44 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-01-09 18:28:44 +0000
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restore djgpp, eventually
merge TODO lists
add unit tests for lib/*.c
-Implement chown, chmod, using fts.
-Implement POSIX-required -L, -H, -P options for chown
strip: add an option to specify the program used to strip binaries.
suggestion from Karl Berry
@@ -122,37 +120,21 @@ sort: Investigate better sorting algorithms; see Knuth vol. 3.
5.3.1, who credits Lester Ford, Jr. and Selmer Johnson, American
Mathematical Monthly 66 (1959), 387-389.
-doc/coreutils.texi:
- Document the exit status of each and every program.
- Suggestion from Dan Jacobson.
- The sentence or two describing the common case must appear just once,
- and then it must be made to appear in the 70+ places where it's needed.
-
-du: rewrite to use something other than nftw to perform directory traversal.
- Due to design limitations of nftw, ...
- using -D makes du dereference each command
- line argument that is a symlink to a directory.
- A symlink to non-directory is not dereferenced.
-
cp --recursive: perform dir traversals in source and dest hierarchy rather
than forming full file names. The latter (current) approach fails
unnecessarily when the names become very long.
-`tail --follow=name --retry' should elicit a diagnostic, since no file name
- was specified.
-
-du and wc: add an option to make them read NUL-delimited
+du and wc: add an option, --from0-file, to make them read NUL-delimited
file name arguments from a file.
-du: warn that -H is going to change to POSIX meaning (not --si)
-
tail --p is now ambiguous
patch from Olivier Delhomme
-du: add option to use \0 as line terminator rather than \n so that
- tools like xdiskusage that parse du output don't choke on file names
- with embedded newlines.
-
Remove suspicious uses of alloca (ones that may allocate more than
about 4k)
+
+Move help2man from man/ to config?
+
+Make the default _POSIX2_VERSION= setting be configure-time selectable
+as well as run-time selectable.