Remove mention of --seed.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c818a00..ee83842 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
-2006-05-20  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+2006-05-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
        * Version 6.0-cvs.
 
+       * NEWS: Remove mention of --seed.  We'll replace it with something
+       better, and don't want to indicate that it is supported.
+       * src/sort.c (usage): Likewise.
+
+2006-05-20  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+
        * src/chmod.c (main): Use FTS_PHYSICAL here, too.
 
        * src/du.c (main): Rename local, s/symlink_deref_bit/symlink_deref_bits/

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e035d82..4876a20 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -126,8 +126,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   for every file, but provides almost the same level of protection
   against mistakes.
 
-  sort now accepts the --random-sort (-R) option and `R' ordering option,
-  as well as the --seed=STRING option.
+  sort now accepts the --random-sort (-R) option and `R' ordering option.
 
 ** Bug fixes
 

diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index f821eb7..3b73622 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-05-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+       * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Remove mention of --seed, since
+       it's going away.
+
 2006-05-04  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
 
        * coreutils.texi (Examples of date): Give example of @seconds.

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 3320a08..c84335f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -3485,8 +3485,7 @@ appear earlier in the output instead of later.
 @cindex random sort
 Sort by hashing the input keys and then sorting the hash values.  This
 is much like a random shuffle of the inputs, except that keys with the
-same value sort together.  Normally the hash function is chosen at
-random, but this can be overridden with the @option{--seed} option.
+same value sort together.  The hash function is chosen at random.
 
 @end table
 
@@ -3624,17 +3623,6 @@ This option can be useful in conjunction with @samp{perl -0} or
 reliably handle arbitrary file names (even those containing blanks
 or other special characters).
 
-@item --seed=@var{string}
-@opindex --seed
-@cindex seed for random hash
-Use data from @var{string} to choose the hash function used by the
-@option{--random-sort} option.  This option can be used to reproduce
-results of earlier invocations of @command{sort} with
-@option{--random-sort}.  However, results are not necessarily
-reproducible across different @command{sort} implementations (e.g.,
-@command{sort} on little-endian versus big-endian architectures, or
-from one version of @command{sort} to the next).
-
 @end table
 
 Historical (BSD and System V) implementations of @command{sort} have