On 06/09/2014 05:18 PM, Alex Deymo wrote: > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: >> This seems like a very useful option, thanks! >> Yes given that there are around 100 utils, >> amalgamation like this reduces overhead significantly. >> >> For a change this size we'd need copyright assignment though. >> Does your employer already have copyright assignment to the FSF? >> If not could you initiate the process? > > I checked this point with the legal team and they said the company > (Google Inc.) has a copyright assignment on file. If accepted, this > patch will be owned by the FSF.
Cool. Google is on file. >> Something like this, orthogonal to the existing coreutils logic, >> would be considered for the impending coreutils 8.23 release >> (hopefully cut next week), though depending on timing this >> might slip to the next release. > > Let me know if you have comments about this patch. I'll try to fix any > issue before the 8.23 cut. Note the next cut will be relatively soon after, so no worries if we don't complete immediately. One thing I was wondering about in addition to the other items in this thread was setting the external command name, with setproctitle() or prctl(PR_SET_NAME) on Linux, or maybe we could reexec to set this? thanks, Pádraig.
