Tasks for GNU fileutils:From Paul Eggert:>> ... GNU `ls' violates the POSIX standard in its handling of>> options.  For example, POSIX requires `ls -x -C' and `ls -C -x' to>> have the same effect, and this works correctly with Solaris 8 `ls',>> but it doesn't work with GNU `ls'.======================Pull the separate paragraphs in sort and ls describing effect oflocale (LC_ALL etc.) into a new section and make ls and sort xref that.====================== dd skip=N vs linux tape devices df vs ext3 listed as auto (and hence ignored) rm's HAVE_WORKING_READDIR: run test in more directories: /tmp /var/tmp======================  shred.c (isaac_seed_machdep): rewrite so it doesn't need signal handlers  [From Paul Eggert]  One of these days we really should change all those 'unsigned's in  hash.[ch] to 'size_t', as the current code has an arbitrary 4GB limit  on many 64-bit hosts.  poison functions like fseeko that have been entirely removed from these    packages, so they can't be accidentally reintroduced later.  Apply a few minor patches to ls.  Add a -g option to df so it dumps the entire statvfs structure.  Solaris' df already does that.  From Karl Berry.  ------------------  Something that I would really appreciate is if someone would run the  Open Group's VSC-lite test suite against the fileutils and textutils  and report the failures.    http://www.opengroup.org/testing/downloads/vsclite.html  I've been meaning to do it myself for months, but haven't found the time.  There's a bit of set-up required, some of which requires root access, e.g.,  to create a few test user accounts and some test groups.  ------------------  remove support for `touch DATE FILE' once POSIX 1003.1-200x becomes official,    (see Paul's 2001-03-17 doc change)  ls: fix ls and then tweak the last two tests here: tests/ls-2/tests    (I already have patches for both of them)  m4/inttypes_h.m4 (jm_AC_HEADER_INTTYPES_H): Don't define HAVE_INTTYPES_H.    That conflicts with the symbol you'd get from AC_CHECK_HEADERS(inttypes.h)  Currently `ls -Fd ./' prints this: .//  It should probably print this instead: ./    (reported by Fran鏾is Pinard)  Consider making `chmod MODE DIR' and `mkdir -m MODE DIR' work the  same way those programs work on on non-GNU systems when the containing  directory has the set-GID bit set.  Currently, GNU chmod and mkdir set  the mode of DIR to MODE.  At least Solaris and AIX versions of those  programs set the mode to MODE,g+s.  The only exception seems to be that  `chmod g-s DIR' removes the setgid attribute.  POSIX allows both  implementations.  See tests/chmod/setgid for a little more info.  In any case, document the behavior.  integrate patches for Linux ACL support  ============================  From Stallman:  THE DIRECTORY TREE.  -------------------  In DOS the command `tree' displays the directory tree. This is very  helpful in grasping the morphology of the directory tree. I would be  most desirable to have this in G-L console mode too. In the first  PC-s the directory tree was so small that it could be displayed on  one screen. Now it is necessary to pipe a full tree into a file to  see it by scrolling it up and down. A G-L tree must be piped to be  displayed and scroll-able.  ============================  ls: test suite to exercize -l and -l --full-time with various LANG settings  ls: recognize --format="%a %b..." strftime formats  ls: add new % formats to get the 10 bytes of the permissions string    (both individually and as groups)  Don't strip slashes unless configure      detects that e.g. lstat can't deal with them.  From: colin@nyx.net (Colin Plumb)  | A very nice feature I just wanted, and I assumed a GNU tool would have,  | is the mv analogue to cp -s, that is, move the file, but leave a symlink  | to the new home.  |  | E.g. mv -s very_big_file /dir/in/fs/with/lots/of/space  |  | (Okay, I should make the change and submit a patch.  I just wish I  | didn't have to deal with that bizarre brace style when doing it.)These are mainly notes to myself.If something piques your interest and you want to contribute,let me know and I can send you details.  chown, cp, etc: don't use chown on symlinks  new option: failure of `cp -p' to restore perm bits causes failure;     POSIX says default should be no.  Stallman +u.cp  cp, mv, install: factor out duplicated hash_init cruft -- put it in copy.c?  cp.c: remove clone of make_path:  see FIXME  copy.c (is_ancestor): See FIXME comment.  cp -f (and install, etc.) fail when the destination is a dangling symlink  make ls's size field wider, so files of size > 9,999,999 don't cause    misalignment  From Noel L Yap:    Add a new option (or extend --preserve) to allow preserving some    subset of a file's attributed.  E.g.,       cp --preserve=timestamp,owner,group,mode    where any of "timestamp", "owner", "group", or "mode" may or may not    be specified.  The default behaviour of "cp --preserve" would be the    way it is now (ie preserve everything that can be).