Re: Why does -inum require stat(2)?

2008-09-23 Thread Jim Meyering
"George Spelvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is something that find has needed for quite a while. There is a >> somewhat more general problem too - the ftsfind program itself seems >> to stat files that fts() already stated, I think. >> >> Ther

Re: Why does -inum require stat(2)?

2008-09-23 Thread George Spelvin
"James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is something that find has needed for quite a while. There is a > somewhat more general problem too - the ftsfind program itself seems > to stat files that fts() already stated, I think. > > There may also be other opportunities for improvement,

Re: Why does -inum require stat(2)?

2008-09-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2008-09-23 James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:11 PM, George Spelvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Based on what you write I would assume that this is true for both the > >> find and the oldfind executables built

Re: Why does -inum require stat(2)?

2008-09-23 Thread James Youngman
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:11 PM, George Spelvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Based on what you write I would assume that this is true for both the >> find and the oldfind executables built in all even vaguely-recent >> findutils releases. > > Er... I'm

Re: Why does -inum require stat(2)?

2008-09-23 Thread George Spelvin
"James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Based on what you write I would assume that this is true for both the > find and the oldfind executables built in all even vaguely-recent > findutils releases. Er... I'm not familiar with the oldfind executable. I'm using the Debian-compiled amd64 4.4