Import of GNU sort from coreutils CVS (trimmed)

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/gnu-sort/TODO b/contrib/gnu-sort/TODO
index b3a2fa3..82a74bf 100644
--- a/contrib/gnu-sort/TODO
+++ b/contrib/gnu-sort/TODO
@@ -47,10 +47,6 @@ seq: give better diagnostics for invalid formats:
    e.g. no or too many % directives
 seq: consider allowing format string to contain no %-directives
 
-dd: consider adding an option to suppress `bytes/block read/written'
-output to stderr.  Suggested here:
-  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=165045
-
 m4: rename all macros that start with AC_ to start with another prefix
 
 resolve RH report on cp -a forwarded by Tim Waugh
@@ -62,9 +58,6 @@ tail: don't use xlseek; it *exits*.
 
 add mktemp?  Suggested by Nelson Beebe
 
-Now that AC_FUNC_LSTAT and AC_FUNC_STAT are in autoconf,
-remove m4/stat.m4 and m4/lstat.m4.
-
 df: alignment problem of `Used' heading with e.g., -mP
   reported by Karl Berry
 
@@ -136,9 +129,8 @@ Adapt these contribution guidelines for coreutils:
 Changes expected to go in, post-5.2.1:
 ======================================
 
-  du and wc: add an option, --from0-file, to make them read NUL-delimited
+  wc: add an option, --files0-from [as for du] to make it read NUL-delimited
     file name arguments from a file.
-    [I now have a patch adding --from0-file for du]
 
   dd patch from Olivier Delhomme
 
@@ -146,9 +138,6 @@ Changes expected to go in, post-5.2.1:
 
   Apply Bruno Haible's hostname changes
 
-  stat: no longer output trailing newline for user-supplied FORMATs
-    This will mean adding \n to default formats, internally.
-
   test/mv/*: clean up $other_partition_tmpdir in all cases
 
   ls: when both -l and --dereference-command-line-symlink-to-dir are
@@ -163,7 +152,20 @@ Changes expected to go in, post-5.2.1:
   Re-add a separate test for du's stack space usage (like the one removed
   from tests/rm/deep-1).
 
+  dd: consider adding an option to suppress `bytes/block read/written'
+  output to stderr.  Suggested here:
+    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=165045
+
   Pending copyright papers:
   ------------------------
   ls --color: Ed Avis' patch to suppress escape sequences for
     non-highlighted files
+
+  getpwnam from Bruce Korb
+
+  pb (progress bar) from Miika Pekkarinen
+
+  Look into improving the performance of md5sum.
+  `openssl md5' is consistently about 30% faster than md5sum on an idle
+  AMD 2000-XP system with plenty of RAM and a 261 MB input file.
+  openssl's md5 implementation is in assembly, generated by a perl script.