before embarking on a big project.
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+Modify chmod so that it does not change an inode's st_ctime
+ when the selected operation would have no other effect.
+ First suggested by Hans Ecke <http://hans.ecke.ws> in
+ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/2920
+ Discussed more recently on <http://bugs.debian.org/497514>.
+
document the following in coreutils.texi:
runcon
chcon
remove or adjust chown's --changes option, since it
can't always do what it currently says it does.
+Support arbitrary-precision arithmetic in those tools for which it
+makes sense. Factor and expr already support this via libgmp.
+The "test" program is covered via its string-based comparison of
+integers. To be converted: seq.
+
Adapt tools like wc, tr, fmt, etc. (most of the textutils) to be
multibyte aware. The problem is that I want to avoid duplicating
significant blocks of logic, yet I also want to incur only minimal