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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 14 |
4 files changed, 14 insertions, 16 deletions
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@ -2006-05-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> +2006-05-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> * Version 6.0-cvs. + * NEWS: Remove mention of --seed. We'll replace it with something + better, and don't want to indicate that it is supported. + * src/sort.c (usage): Likewise. + +2006-05-20 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + * src/chmod.c (main): Use FTS_PHYSICAL here, too. * src/du.c (main): Rename local, s/symlink_deref_bit/symlink_deref_bits/ @@ -126,8 +126,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- for every file, but provides almost the same level of protection against mistakes. - sort now accepts the --random-sort (-R) option and `R' ordering option, - as well as the --seed=STRING option. + sort now accepts the --random-sort (-R) option and `R' ordering option. ** Bug fixes diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index f821eb784..3b7362295 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-05-25 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Remove mention of --seed, since + it's going away. + 2006-05-04 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> * coreutils.texi (Examples of date): Give example of @seconds. diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 3320a0817..c84335f78 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -3485,8 +3485,7 @@ appear earlier in the output instead of later. @cindex random sort Sort by hashing the input keys and then sorting the hash values. This is much like a random shuffle of the inputs, except that keys with the -same value sort together. Normally the hash function is chosen at -random, but this can be overridden with the @option{--seed} option. +same value sort together. The hash function is chosen at random. @end table @@ -3624,17 +3623,6 @@ This option can be useful in conjunction with @samp{perl -0} or reliably handle arbitrary file names (even those containing blanks or other special characters). -@item --seed=@var{string} -@opindex --seed -@cindex seed for random hash -Use data from @var{string} to choose the hash function used by the -@option{--random-sort} option. This option can be used to reproduce -results of earlier invocations of @command{sort} with -@option{--random-sort}. However, results are not necessarily -reproducible across different @command{sort} implementations (e.g., -@command{sort} on little-endian versus big-endian architectures, or -from one version of @command{sort} to the next). - @end table Historical (BSD and System V) implementations of @command{sort} have |