Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking in the source code, there are several deprecated/obsolescent > options slated for removal that are still present:
Thanks for bringing that up. > du -m: FIXME: remove in 2005 My philosophy is that deprecated options should be undocumented, and ideally, their use should should provoke a diagnostic for at least a year (in a stable release) before removal. du's -m doesn't provoke a diagnostic, so I'll add one and push the removal date to 2006. Same for --kilobytes in ls, du, and df. These two do, so I'll remove them now. > stat --link: FIXME: remove in 2003 > tail --allow-missing: FIXME: remove in 2005; use --retry instead od's -F option doesn't provoke a diagnostic either, but I may remove it regardless, since it was probably used only rarely. Feedback welcome. > There are a few other options marked obsolescent, but without a timeline > for removal (such as df --kilobytes, od -F, etc.) _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
