> On 1/12/2011 2:02 PM, Eric Blake wrote: ... >> But someone has to contribute the patch - are you willing?
Jeff Blaine wrote: > Sure, I can try at least! Great! Here are some coding guidelines: http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/HACKING To start with, please look through the copyright assignment section and start the process (assuming you're game), since it can take a few weeks: http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/HACKING#n429 The arg-handling (and --files0-from=FILE handling) loop you'll use should be very similar to the ones in wc.c, du.c and sort.c. You'll probably want to use tests that are very similar to the ones that test the behavior in those tools. Note this bit at the top of tests/misc/wc-files0-from: #!/usr/bin/perl # Exercise wc's --files0-from option. # FIXME: keep this file in sync with tests/du/files0-from.