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If you're interested in helping, here are some tasks that we've considered
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over the years. Beware: some are quite old and no longer valid. To avoid
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wasting your time by duplicating work or by working on a task that is no
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longer pertinent, please search the mailing list and post your intent
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before embarking on a big project.
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==================================================
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Modify chmod so that it does not change an inode's st_ctime
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when the selected operation would have no other effect.
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First suggested by Hans Ecke <https://hans.ecke.ws> in
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https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-coreutils/2004-09/msg00145.html
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Discussed more recently on <https://bugs.debian.org/497514>.
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document the following in coreutils.texi:
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[
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pinky
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Suggestion from Paul Eggert:
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More generally, there's not that much use for imaxtostr nowadays,
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since the inttypes module and newer versions of gettext allow things
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like _("truncating %s at %" PRIdMAX " bytes") to work portably.
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I suspect that (if someone cares to take the time) we can remove
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all instances of imaxtostr and umaxtostr in coreutils and gnulib.
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cp --recursive: use fts and *at functions to perform directory traversals
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in source and destination hierarchy rather than forming full file names.
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The latter (current) approach fails unnecessarily when the names
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become very long, and requires space and time that is quadratic in the
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depth of the hierarchy. [Bo Borgerson is working on this]
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printf:
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Now that gnulib supports *printf("%a"), import one of the
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*printf-posix modules so that printf(1) will support %a even on
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platforms where the native *printf(3) is deficient.
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Suggestion from Eric Blake.
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consider adding some implementation of the "col" utility
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Suggested by Karl Berry.
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doc/coreutils.texi:
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Address this comment: FIXME: mv's behavior in this case is system-dependent
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Better still: fix the code so it's *not* system-dependent.
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ls: add --format=FORMAT option that controls how each line is printed.
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copy.c: Address the FIXME-maybe comment in copy_internal.
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And once that's done, add an exclusion so that 'cp --link'
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no longer incurs the overhead of saving src. dev/ino and dest. filename
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in the hash table.
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Write an autoconf test to work around build failure in HPUX's 64-bit mode.
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See notes in README -- and remove them once there's a work-around.
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Integrate use of sendfile, suggested here:
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https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-fileutils/2003-03/msg00030.html
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I don't plan to do that, since a few tests demonstrate no significant benefit.
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printf: consider adapting builtins/printf.def from bash
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tail: don't use xlseek; it *exits*.
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Instead, maybe use a macro and return nonzero.
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tr: support nontrivial equivalence classes, e.g. [=e=] with LC_COLLATE=fr_FR
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lib/strftime.c: Since %N is the only format that we need but that
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glibc's strftime doesn't support, consider using a wrapper that
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would expand /%(-_)?\d*N/ to the desired string and then pass the
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resulting string to glibc's strftime.
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sort: Investigate better sorting algorithms; see Knuth vol. 3.
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We tried list merge sort, but it was about 50% slower than the
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recursive algorithm currently used by sortlines, and it used more
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comparisons. We're not sure why this was, as the theory suggests it
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should do fewer comparisons, so perhaps this should be revisited.
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List merge sort was implemented in the style of Knuth algorithm
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5.2.4L, with the optimization suggested by exercise 5.2.4-22. The
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test case was 140,213,394 bytes, 426,4424 lines, text taken from the
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GCC 3.3 distribution, sort.c compiled with GCC 2.95.4 and running on
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Debian 3.0r1 GNU/Linux, 2.4GHz Pentium 4, single pass with no
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temporary files and plenty of RAM.
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Since comparisons seem to be the bottleneck, perhaps the best
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algorithm to try next should be merge insertion. See Knuth section
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5.3.1, who credits Lester Ford, Jr. and Selmer Johnson, American
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Mathematical Monthly 66 (1959), 387-389.
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shred: Update shred as described here to conform to DoD 5220 rules:
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https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-coreutils/2007-05/msg00075.html
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Remove suspicious uses of alloca (ones that may allocate more than
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about 4k)
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Improve test coverage.
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See HACKING for instructions on generating an html test coverage report.
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Find a program that has poor coverage and improve.
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Changes expected to go in, someday.
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======================================
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dd patch from Olivier Delhomme
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test/mv/*: clean up $other_partition_tmpdir in all cases
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ls: when both -l and --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir are
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specified, consider whether to let the latter select whether to
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dereference command line symlinks to directories. Since -l has
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an implicit --NO-dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir meaning.
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Pointed out by Karl Berry.
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Pending copyright papers:
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------------------------
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getpwnam from Bruce Korb
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pb (progress bar) from Miika Pekkarinen
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Remove long-deprecated options. Search case-insensitive for
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'deprecated' and 'remove in '. Automate this.
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Add a distcheck-time test to ensure that every distributed
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file is either read-only(indicating generated) or is
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version-controlled and up to date.
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remove all uses of the 'register' keyword: Done. add a maint.mk rule
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for this, too.
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remove or adjust chown's --changes option, since it
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can't always do what it currently says it does.
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Support arbitrary-precision arithmetic in those tools for which it
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makes sense. Factor and expr already support this via libgmp.
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The "test" program is covered via its string-based comparison of
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integers. To be converted: seq.
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Adapt tools like wc, tr, fmt, etc. (most of the textutils) to be
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multibyte aware. The problem is that I want to avoid duplicating
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significant blocks of logic, yet I also want to incur only minimal
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(preferably 'no') cost when operating in single-byte mode.
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pr's use of nstrftime can make it malloc a very large (up to SIZE_MAX) buffer
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-----
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Copyright (C) 2002-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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