From 1a8e00ef270077dea02d7bbc4c8959fad414cde7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:18:47 +0100 Subject: * TODO: Add an introduction. Remove a few entries. Update a few others. --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ TODO | 21 ++++++++++++++------- 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 + + * TODO: Add an introduction. + Remove a few entries. Update a few others. + 2008-01-13 Jim Meyering 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 Beware: some are quite old and no longer valid.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 -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2