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Diffstat (limited to 'TODO')
| -rw-r--r-- | TODO | 30 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 24 deletions
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@ 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. |