+If you're interested in helping, here are some tasks that we've considered
+over the years. Beware: some are quite old and no longer valid. To avoid
+wasting your time by duplicating work or by working on a task that is no
+longer pertinent, please search the mailing list and post your intent
+before embarking on a big project.
+
+==================================================
document the following in coreutils.texi:
runcon
chcon
renice: POSIX utility, needs implementing.
suggestion from Karl Berry (among others).
+ Bob Proulx is working on this.
install: add an option to specify the program used to strip binaries.
suggestion from Karl Berry
head, tail, rm, cp, mv, ln, chmod, chown, chgrp, install, ln
These send it to stderr:
shred mkdir split
+ shred must write --verbose output to stderr
readlink is different
Write an autoconf test to work around build failure in HPUX's 64-bit mode.
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
buggy use of getgrouplist by never passing it a buffer of length zero.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200327
-remove `%s' notation:
+remove `%s' notation (now that they're all gone, add a Makefile.maint 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 Makefile.maint rule
+ for this, too.
+
remove or adjust chown's --changes option, since it
can't always do what it currently says it does.
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