Re: ready for coreutils-8.1?

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:

> According to Jim Meyering on 10/22/2009 4:16 AM:
>> I think we're ready for coreutils-8.1.
>> Does anyone have pending patches or bug reports they'd like to share
>> or to remind us about if they haven't been addressed?
>
> Should I finish 'chmod -h', as well as 'chmod -R -L/-P/-H' support, to
> match BSD chmod?  The -L/-P/-H support is not required by POSIX (odd,
> since most other tools with -R do require it), and the -h support is
> optional in POSIX (since fchmodat(,AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) is allowed to
> fail), but both seem pretty easy to add.

Sure.  I didn't know those were in the pipe.
There's no big hurry.

In addition, I may have to adjust fts.c, per very
recent discussion on bug-gnulib.