maint: consolidate developer debug messages

[platform/upstream/coreutils.git] / TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
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--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -34,9 +34,8 @@ printf:
   platforms where the native *printf(3) is deficient.
   Suggestion from Eric Blake.
 
-renice: POSIX utility, needs implementing.
-  suggestion from Karl Berry (among others).
-  Bob Proulx is working on this.
+consider adding some implementation of the "col" utility
+  Suggested by Karl Berry.
 
 doc/coreutils.texi:
   Address this comment: FIXME: mv's behavior in this case is system-dependent
@@ -44,11 +43,8 @@ doc/coreutils.texi:
 
 ls: add --format=FORMAT option that controls how each line is printed.
 
-cp --no-preserve=X should not attempt to preserve attribute X
-  reported by Andreas Schwab
-
 copy.c: Address the FIXME-maybe comment in copy_internal.
-And once that's done, add an exclusion so that `cp --link'
+And once that's done, add an exclusion so that 'cp --link'
 no longer incurs the overhead of saving src. dev/ino and dest. filename
 in the hash table.
 
@@ -59,10 +55,6 @@ Integrate use of sendfile, suggested here:
   http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-fileutils/2003-03/msg00030.html
 I don't plan to do that, since a few tests demonstrate no significant benefit.
 
-Should printf '\0123' print "\n3"?
-  per report from TAKAI Kousuke on Mar 27
-  http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-03/index.html
-
 printf: consider adapting builtins/printf.def from bash
 
 tail: don't use xlseek; it *exits*.
@@ -79,9 +71,6 @@ 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
@@ -126,10 +115,6 @@ Changes expected to go in, someday.
   an implicit --NO-dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir meaning.
   Pointed out by Karl Berry.
 
-  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:
   ------------------------
   getpwnam from Bruce Korb
@@ -139,17 +124,17 @@ Changes expected to go in, someday.
   ------------------------------
 
 Remove long-deprecated options.  Search case-insensitive for
-`deprecated' and `remove in '.  Automate this.
+'deprecated' and 'remove in '.  Automate this.
 
 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.
 
-remove `%s' notation (now that they're all gone, add a maint.mk sc_
+remove '%s' notation (now that they're all gone, add a maint.mk 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 maint.mk rule
+remove all uses of the 'register' keyword: Done.  add a maint.mk rule
   for this, too.
 
 remove or adjust chown's --changes option, since it
@@ -163,13 +148,13 @@ 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
-  (preferably `no') cost when operating in single-byte mode.
+  (preferably 'no') cost when operating in single-byte mode.
 
 pr's use of nstrftime can make it malloc a very large (up to SIZE_MAX) buffer
 
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+Copyright (C) 2002-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
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