-restore djgpp, eventually
-merge TODO lists
add unit tests for lib/*.c
-rewrite lib/ftw.c not to use explicit recursion, and then use nftw in
- chown, chgrp, chmod, du
strip: add an option to specify the program used to strip binaries.
suggestion from Karl Berry
Address this comment: FIXME: mv's behavior in this case is system-dependent
Better still: fix the code so it's *not* system-dependent.
-implement --target-directory=DIR for install (per texinfo documentation)
-
ls: add --format=FORMAT option that controls how each line is printed.
cp --no-preserve=X should not attempt to preserve attribute X
no longer incurs the overhead of saving src. dev/ino and dest. filename
in the hash table.
-Apply suggestion from Paul Jarc to use something along the
-lines of http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/setuidgid.html to avoid
-kludges (as in tests/rm/fail-2eperm) when running tests as root.
-
See if we can be consistent about where --verbose sends its output:
These all send --verbose output to stdout:
head, tail, rm, cp, mv, ln, chmod, chown, chgrp, install, ln
e.g. no or too many % directives
seq: consider allowing format string to contain no %-directives
-dd: consider adding an option to suppress `bytes/block read/written'
-output to stderr. Suggested here:
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=165045
-
-m4: rename all macros that start with AC_ to start with another prefix
-
resolve RH report on cp -a forwarded by Tim Waugh
-Martin Michlmayr's patch to provide ls with `--sort directory' option
-
-Remove uses of PROTOTYPES
+provide an ls option to do something like `--sort directory'
tail: don't use xlseek; it *exits*.
Instead, maybe use a macro and return nonzero.
+
+add mktemp? Suggested by Nelson Beebe
+
+df: alignment problem of `Used' heading with e.g., -mP
+ reported by Karl Berry
+
+tr: support nontrivial equivalence classes, e.g. [=e=] with LC_COLLATE=fr_FR
+
+lib/strftime.c: Since %N is the only format that we need but that
+ glibc's strftime doesn't support, consider using a wrapper that
+ would expand /%(-_)?\d*N/ to the desired string and then pass the
+ resulting string to glibc's strftime.
+
+sort: Compress temporary files when doing large external sort/merges.
+ This improves performance when you can compress/uncompress faster than
+ you can read/write, which is common in these days of fast CPUs.
+ suggestion from Charles Randall on 2001-08-10
+
+sort: Add an ordering option -R that causes 'sort' to sort according
+ to a random permutation of the correct sort order. Also, add an
+ option --random-seed=SEED that causes 'sort' to use an arbitrary
+ string SEED to select which permutations to use, in a deterministic
+ manner: that is, if you sort a permutation of the same input file
+ with the same --random-seed=SEED option twice, you'll get the same
+ output. The default SEED is chosen at random, and contains enough
+ information to ensure that the output permutation is random.
+ suggestion from Feth AREZKI, Stephan Kasal, and Paul Eggert on 2003-07-17
+
+unexpand: [http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/unexpand.html]
+ printf 'x\t \t y\n'|unexpand -t 8,9 should print its input, unmodified.
+ printf 'x\t \t y\n'|unexpand -t 5,8 should print "x\ty\n"
+
+Let GNU su use the `wheel' group if appropriate.
+ (there are a couple patches, already)
+
+sort: Investigate better sorting algorithms; see Knuth vol. 3.
+
+ We tried list merge sort, but it was about 50% slower than the
+ recursive algorithm currently used by sortlines, and it used more
+ comparisons. We're not sure why this was, as the theory suggests it
+ should do fewer comparisons, so perhaps this should be revisited.
+ List merge sort was implemented in the style of Knuth algorithm
+ 5.2.4L, with the optimization suggested by exercise 5.2.4-22. The
+ test case was 140,213,394 bytes, 426,4424 lines, text taken from the
+ GCC 3.3 distribution, sort.c compiled with GCC 2.95.4 and running on
+ Debian 3.0r1 GNU/Linux, 2.4GHz Pentium 4, single pass with no
+ temporary files and plenty of RAM.
+
+ Since comparisons seem to be the bottleneck, perhaps the best
+ algorithm to try next should be merge insertion. See Knuth section
+ 5.3.1, who credits Lester Ford, Jr. and Selmer Johnson, American
+ Mathematical Monthly 66 (1959), 387-389.
+
+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.
+
+Remove suspicious uses of alloca (ones that may allocate more than
+ about 4k)
+
+Adapt these contribution guidelines for coreutils:
+ http://sources.redhat.com/automake/contribute.html
+
+
+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
+ specified, consider whether to let the latter select whether to
+ dereference command line symlinks to directories. Since -l has
+ an implicit --NO-dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir meaning.
+ Pointed out by Karl Berry.
+
+ A more efficient version of factor, and possibly one that
+ accepts inputs of size 2^64 and larger.
+
+ dd: consider adding an option to suppress `bytes/block read/written'
+ output to stderr. Suggested here:
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=165045
+
+ Pending copyright papers:
+ ------------------------
+ ls --color: Ed Avis' patch to suppress escape sequences for
+ non-highlighted files
+
+ getpwnam from Bruce Korb
+
+ pb (progress bar) from Miika Pekkarinen
+
+ ------------------------------
+
+Have euidaccess.m4 check for eaccess as well as euidaccess
+If found, then do `#define euidaccess eaccess'.
+
+Remove long-deprecated options. Search case-insensitive for
+`deprecated' and `remove in '.
+
+Add a distcheck-time test to ensure that every distributed
+file is either read-only(indicating generated) or is
+version-controlled and up to date.
+
+Implement Ulrich Drepper's suggestion to use getgrouplist rather
+ than getugroups. This affects only `id', but makes a big difference
+ on systems with many users and/or groups, and makes id usable once
+ again on systems where access restrictions make getugroups fail.
+ But first we'll need a run-test (either in an autoconf macro or at
+ run time) to avoid the segfault bug in libc-2.3.2's getgrouplist.
+ In that case, we'd revert to using a new (to-be-written) getgrouplist
+ module that does most of what `id' already does.
+
+remove `%s' notation:
+ grep -E "\`%.{,4}s'" src/*.c
+
+remove or adjust chown's --changes option, since it
+ can't always do what it currently says it does.
+
+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
+ (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
+
+write rules to deal with c99->c89 patches and to automatically
+ check that they apply cleanly
+
+Use latest automake
+
+----------------
+The command:
+ mv dir new-name/
+should work the same way the underlying
+rename ("dir", "new-name/") call does.
+http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-11/msg00292.html
+
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