On Tuesday, July 25, 2017 09:10:09 Paul Eggert wrote: > Kamil Dudka wrote: > > Any chance to make the (still documented) -noleaf option of find work > > again? > I'm inclined to agree with Pádraig, in thinking that fts should Just Work > without the complexity of an extra option to disable an optimization that is > supposed to work.
With this reasoning, you could also deprecate gcc -O0 and the like because compiler optimizations should just work... While I respect your opinion about removing this debugging facility upstream, the -noleaf option stays implemented in Fedora. It has already helped me to quickly find the root cause of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1299169 so I was able to report it to gnulib upstream and, based on that, Pádraig could revert the change that had been causing a serious regression in the upcoming release of coreutils. There is no maintenance overhead with that already existing -noleaf option. Removing it would only complicate the life to users affected by this class of bugs, support engineers, and file system developers. Kamil > As things stand, 'find' can disable leaf optimization by using a bigger > hammer, namely, turn off FTS_CURDIR. However, my suggestion is to deprecate > the -noleaf option while you're at it.
