[bug #20891] exit status enhancement for xargs

URL: Summary: exit status enhancement for xargs Project: findutils Submitted by: None Submitted on: Saturday 08/25/2007 at 02:01 UTC Category: xargs Severity: 3 - Norm

Re: [bug #15384] find misbehaves when parent directory is not readable

On 8/24/07, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi James, > > When you measured that, did the system you used have sufficient > openat support? If not, you probably saw the performance penalty of > the openat/fstatat/etc. wrapper functions that simulate the syscalls -- > probably via /proc/s

Re: [Findutils-patches] [PATCH] -delete requires -depth

On 8/23/07, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruno raised the objection on savannah that this approach is not > backwards-compatible (ie. scripts that used just -delete will now fail to > do anything). Well, they will return a nonzero status, which scripts should pay attention to. But of

Re: Poll: what should happen when -delete fails?

Eric Blake scripsit: > > 1. If unlink or rmdir fails, should the -delete action return true or false? False, I'd say, so you can write -delete -o -dothisorthat. > > 2. If -delete returns false because it fails, should find also return > > nonzero? I lean toward no, but I'm not too sure. I wou

Re: [bug #15384] find misbehaves when parent directory is not readable

"James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/22/07, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At this point, since we are about to create a stable 4.4 branch where the >> fts()-based find works, do we still need to worry about the home-grown >> oldfind, which still has the bug? > > Yes, for th