Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think the principle of least astonishment dictates that the default > behavior of existing tools match what they do on existing systems. > That is, S_ISDIR should be the usual test applied by find and the > like. I for one will be annoyed if I do "find . -name \*.o -print | > xargs rm" and it goes into my translator-provided tar-file directories > and removes the backup copies of my .o files.
Ok, this is a compelling argument. So that means the default should be to key off of S_ISDIR. (And, as I said, we should be sure that *all* recursive-descent shell commands do the *same* thing [chmod -R, etc].) > GNU find certainly ought to have switches to make possible all the > permutations of what you might really want to do given the Hurd > filesystem semantics. That includes a switch to descend non-S_IFDIR > directories, akin to `-follow' for descending symlinks to directories, > as well as a switch to use O_NOTRANS, etc. Excellent. Again, let's work out a good name for the switch, and then work on adding it not just to find, but chmod/chown/chgrp/ls, etc. Thomas _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
