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
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
add mktemp? Suggested by Nelson Beebe
-Now that AC_FUNC_LSTAT and AC_FUNC_STAT are in autoconf,
-remove m4/stat.m4 and m4/lstat.m4.
-
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
-fix tail -f to work with named pipes; reported by Ian D. Allen
- $ mkfifo j; tail -f j & sleep 1; echo x > j
- ./tail: j: file truncated
- ./tail: j: cannot seek to offset 0: Illegal seek
-
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
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.
+tail --p is now ambiguous
+
+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, post-5.2.1:
+======================================
+
+ wc: add an option, --files0-from [as for du] to make it read NUL-delimited
+ file name arguments from a file.
+
+ dd patch from Olivier Delhomme
+
+ Apply Andreas Gruenbacher's ACL and 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.
+
+ Re-add a separate test for du's stack space usage (like the one removed
+ from tests/rm/deep-1).
+
+ 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
+
+ Look into improving the performance of md5sum.
+ `openssl md5' is consistently about 30% faster than md5sum on an idle
+ AMD 2000-XP system with plenty of RAM and a 261 MB input file.
+ openssl's md5 implementation is in assembly, generated by a perl script.
+
+Have euidaccess.m4 check for eaccess as well as euidaccess
+If found, then do `#define euidaccess eaccess'.
+
+Remove long-deprecated options like -V for version-control and
+ tail's --allow-missing
+
+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.c should never exit, yet may do so (see uses of EXIT_FAILURE)
+
+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
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