On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/29/2013 01:24 AM, Prashant Sharma wrote: > > [Please don't top-post on technical lists] > > > The need for this arose with following scenario. > > I have stream processing engine doing some random stuff and creating a > lot > > of files in the process. And since I did not wrote it myself and people > who > > wrote it do not have clearing up mechanism for the files that accumulate > > and tend to either fill Inodes or File-system. > > > > So needed a way for clearing things up older than 30 seconds. Ofcourse I > > can touch a dummy file and then sleep for 30 seconds and then use find > > -newer. > > Why not just touch the file 30 seconds into the past to begin with? > There's no need to sleep, since touch is for more than just the current > timestamp. > > Sounds right! will try it. > > But that sounds like so much for so less and for that matter, one > > can parse the output of stat in perl or even in bash and do the same > thing. > > In this case a single line command might sound like an improvement. > > Consider - we gave you a solution (with touch and -newer) that works now > (and complies with POSIX), vs. the delay of waiting for adding a new > extension feature and percolating it into your distro (probably a > process of a couple of years, even if we do decide to enhance find, and > even then, limits you to GNU find instead of POSIX). It's hard to > justify adding a new feature if existing standard features already work > without too much additional effort. > > However, you are correct that we can add suffix parsing to -mtime > without violating POSIX, so it might make a nice syntactic sugar > addition. If you are willing to write the patch, including > documentation and testsuite additions, your proposal will get a lot > further. But for now, it appears that no one else is interested in > implementing it on your behalf. > > I think, I am ready to try a patch given some time. Please assign me an issue from the bug tracker. > -- > Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org > > -- s
