1 restore djgpp, eventually
3 add unit tests for lib/*.c
4 rewrite lib/ftw.c not to use explicit recursion, and then use nftw in
5 chown, chgrp, chmod, du
7 strip: add an option to specify the program used to strip binaries.
8 suggestion from Karl Berry
11 Address this comment: FIXME: mv's behavior in this case is system-dependent
12 Better still: fix the code so it's *not* system-dependent.
14 implement --target-directory=DIR for install (per texinfo documentation)
16 ls: add --format=FORMAT option that controls how each line is printed.
18 cp --no-preserve=X should not attempt to preserve attribute X
19 reported by Andreas Schwab
21 copy.c: Address the FIXME-maybe comment in copy_internal.
22 And once that's done, add an exclusion so that `cp --link'
23 no longer incurs the overhead of saving src. dev/ino and dest. filename
26 See if we can be consistent about where --verbose sends its output:
27 These all send --verbose output to stdout:
28 head, tail, rm, cp, mv, ln, chmod, chown, chgrp, install, ln
29 These send it to stderr:
33 Write an autoconf test to work around build failure in HPUX's 64-bit mode.
34 See notes in README -- and remove them once there's a work-around.
36 Integrate use of sendfile, suggested here:
37 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-fileutils/2003-03/msg00030.html
38 I don't plan to do that, since a few tests demonstrate no significant benefit.
40 Should printf '\0123' print "\n3"?
41 per report from TAKAI Kousuke on Mar 27
42 http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-03/index.html
44 printf: consider adapting builtins/printf.def from bash
46 df: add `--total' option, suggested here http://bugs.debian.org/186007
48 seq: give better diagnostics for invalid formats:
49 e.g. no or too many % directives
50 seq: consider allowing format string to contain no %-directives
52 dd: consider adding an option to suppress `bytes/block read/written'
53 output to stderr. Suggested here:
54 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=165045
56 m4: rename all macros that start with AC_ to start with another prefix
58 resolve RH report on cp -a forwarded by Tim Waugh
60 Martin Michlmayr's patch to provide ls with `--sort directory' option
62 Remove uses of PROTOTYPES
64 tail: don't use xlseek; it *exits*.
65 Instead, maybe use a macro and return nonzero.
67 add mktemp? Suggested by Nelson Beebe
69 Now that AC_FUNC_LSTAT and AC_FUNC_STAT are in autoconf,
70 remove m4/stat.m4 and m4/lstat.m4.
72 df: alignment problem of `Used' heading with e.g., -mP
74 tr: support nontrivial equivalence classes, e.g. [=e=] with LC_COLLATE=fr_FR
76 fix tail -f to work with named pipes; reported by Ian D. Allen
78 lib/strftime.c: Since %N is the only format that we need but that
79 glibc's strftime doesn't support, consider using a wrapper that
80 would expand /%(-_)?\d*N/ to the desired string and then pass the
81 resulting string to glibc's strftime.