[bug #27221] symlink_loop check broken by FTS_CWDFD

2010-02-20 Thread James Youngman
Update of bug #27221 (project findutils): Severity: 3 - Normal => 4 - Important Assigned to:None => jay ___ Follow-up Comment #1: I'm working on a

[bug #28913] 4.4.2 xargs: Add command example to EXAMPLES section to demonstrate option -I

2010-02-20 Thread James Youngman
Update of bug #28913 (project findutils): Category:None => documentation Severity: 3 - Normal => 2 - Minor Status:None => Need Info Assigned to

[bug #28912] 4.4.2 xargs: manual does not document use of {}

2010-02-20 Thread James Youngman
Update of bug #28912 (project findutils): Category:None => documentation Status:None => Wont Fix Open/Closed:Open => Closed Release

[bug #27846] [findutils-4.5.5] assertion failure on aix in xargs.c line 442 on AIX

2010-02-20 Thread James Youngman
Update of bug #27846 (project findutils): Status: In Progress => Fixed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: I believe the attached patch (which I've applied to the 4.5.x tree and pushed) should fix you

[bug #28872] Mistake in "10.2.1 Problems with -exec and filenames"

2010-02-20 Thread James Youngman
Update of bug #28872 (project findutils): Status:None => Fixed Assigned to:None => jay ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Fixed in the 4.4

[bug #28824] incorrect error message on invalid argument

2010-02-20 Thread James Youngman
Update of bug #28824 (project findutils): Status: In Progress => Fixed ___ Follow-up Comment #2: Fixed in 4.4.x branch. Fixed in 4.5.x branch. _

Re: -readable by who

2010-02-20 Thread jidanni
> "JY" == James Youngman writes: JY> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:06 PM, wrote: >>       -readable >>              Matches files which are readable... >> Also mention "by the current user" I suppose. JY> Since there is more than one possible interpretation of the "current JY> user" this clari

Re: -readable by who

2010-02-20 Thread jidanni
Gentlemen, some of these are clearer than man test or (info "(coreutils) Access permission tests") bash$ help test|grep you -r FILETrue if file is readable by you. -w FILETrue if the file is writable by you. -x FILETrue if the file is executable by you.

[bug #28824] incorrect error message on invalid argument

2010-02-20 Thread James Youngman
Update of bug #28824 (project findutils): Status:None => In Progress Assigned to:None => jay ___ Reply to this item at:

Re: -readable by who

2010-02-20 Thread James Youngman
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:06 PM, wrote: >       -readable >              Matches files which are readable... > Also mention "by the current user" I suppose. Since there is more than one possible interpretation of the "current user" this clarification doesn't help much, I think. James.

Re: Listing all inodes on filesystem (without doing a stat() call).

2010-02-20 Thread James Youngman
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > I'm trying to generate a sorted list of inodes on my filesystem (so I > can optimize a GFS2 backup workflow).  The filesystem has >1 million > inodes, so generating this list can take a little bit of time. > > I initially attempted to do th

[bug #28237] strange behavior (maybe a bug, maybe not...)

2010-02-20 Thread James Youngman
Update of bug #28237 (project findutils): Status:None => Need Info ___ Reply to this item at: ___

[bug #28237] strange behavior (maybe a bug, maybe not...)

2010-02-20 Thread James Youngman
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #28237 (project findutils): You specified what behaviour you got, but not what you expected. Please update your example to include an explanation of the effect you expected. Also, if you can demonstrate the problem without invoking rename, then we don't have to worry

Re: How to search for broken symbolic links?

2010-02-20 Thread James Youngman
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Peng Yu on 2/15/2010 6:50 PM: >> I don't find which option to use to search for broken symbolic links. >> Could somebody let me know if there is such an option? >> > > Yes.  Here's the POSIX way: > > find . -L -type l > > Or, if you