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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-05-06 14:29:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-05-06 14:29:57 +0200 |
| commit | 6a9c6804ddd9eca47135f66290a2e7718a919c54 (patch) | |
| tree | 4c26572601e3349e4c45dfd130a78dfc3ccbc0e0 /TODO | |
| parent | 7c9c6c7875cc6c5d249b14fcb2042da20646433a (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-6a9c6804ddd9eca47135f66290a2e7718a919c54.tar.xz | |
* TODO: Bo Borgerson is rewriting support for cp --recursive
Diffstat (limited to 'TODO')
| -rw-r--r-- | TODO | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ document the following in coreutils.texi: uptime Also document the SELinux changes. +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 + become very long, and requires space and time that is quadratic in the + depth of the hierarchy. [Bo Borgerson is working on this] + comm: add an option, --output-delimiter=STR Files to change: src/comm.c, ChangeLog, NEWS, doc/coreutils.texi, Add a new file, tests/misc/comm (use another file in that directory as @@ -96,10 +102,6 @@ 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. -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. - Remove suspicious uses of alloca (ones that may allocate more than about 4k) |