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2002-07-02 22:56:32 +08:00
restore djgpp, eventually
2002-08-20 18:19:18 +08:00
merge TODO lists
add unit tests for lib/*.c
2002-11-25 00:03:14 +08:00
rewrite du.c not to use explicit recursion
2002-10-01 19:43:19 +08:00
strip: add an option to specify the program used to strip binaries.
suggestion from Karl Berry
2002-12-06 22:23:44 +08:00
2002-12-06 23:38:26 +08:00
doc/coreutils.texi:
Address this comment: FIXME: mv's behavior in this case is system-dependent
2002-12-11 18:12:41 +08:00
Better still: fix the code so it's *not* system-dependent.
2002-12-15 16:40:42 +08:00
implement --target-directory=DIR for install (per texinfo documentation)
2003-03-02 18:06:00 +08:00
ls: add --format=FORMAT option that controls how each line is printed.
2003-03-05 05:53:04 +08:00
cp --no-preserve=X should not attempt to preserve attribute X
reported by Andreas Schwab
2003-03-11 02:26:16 +08:00
printf: support %b -- consider adapting builtins/printf.def from bash
copy.c: Address the FIXME-maybe comment in copy_internal.
2003-03-11 02:27:27 +08:00
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.
2003-03-12 01:08:50 +08:00
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.
2003-03-12 06:54:36 +08:00
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
These send it to stderr:
shred mkdir split
readlink is different