From 32cea0d8ae4e3226ed1a782051189569f9e9e452 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 16:48:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Remove mention of --seed. --- ChangeLog | 8 +++++++- NEWS | 3 +-- doc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ doc/coreutils.texi | 14 +------------- 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index c818a00086..ee83842345 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,7 +1,13 @@ -2006-05-20 Jim Meyering +2006-05-25 Paul Eggert * Version 6.0-cvs. + * NEWS: Remove mention of --seed. We'll replace it with something + better, and don't want to indicate that it is supported. + * src/sort.c (usage): Likewise. + +2006-05-20 Jim Meyering + * src/chmod.c (main): Use FTS_PHYSICAL here, too. * src/du.c (main): Rename local, s/symlink_deref_bit/symlink_deref_bits/ diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e035d820fc..4876a20690 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -126,8 +126,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- for every file, but provides almost the same level of protection against mistakes. - sort now accepts the --random-sort (-R) option and `R' ordering option, - as well as the --seed=STRING option. + sort now accepts the --random-sort (-R) option and `R' ordering option. ** Bug fixes diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index f821eb7841..3b73622952 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-05-25 Paul Eggert + + * coreutils.texi (sort invocation): Remove mention of --seed, since + it's going away. + 2006-05-04 Eric Blake * coreutils.texi (Examples of date): Give example of @seconds. diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 3320a08172..c84335f782 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -3485,8 +3485,7 @@ appear earlier in the output instead of later. @cindex random sort Sort by hashing the input keys and then sorting the hash values. This is much like a random shuffle of the inputs, except that keys with the -same value sort together. Normally the hash function is chosen at -random, but this can be overridden with the @option{--seed} option. +same value sort together. The hash function is chosen at random. @end table @@ -3624,17 +3623,6 @@ This option can be useful in conjunction with @samp{perl -0} or reliably handle arbitrary file names (even those containing blanks or other special characters). -@item --seed=@var{string} -@opindex --seed -@cindex seed for random hash -Use data from @var{string} to choose the hash function used by the -@option{--random-sort} option. This option can be used to reproduce -results of earlier invocations of @command{sort} with -@option{--random-sort}. However, results are not necessarily -reproducible across different @command{sort} implementations (e.g., -@command{sort} on little-endian versus big-endian architectures, or -from one version of @command{sort} to the next). - @end table Historical (BSD and System V) implementations of @command{sort} have -- 2.47.2