[bug #38791] doc: fix typos uncovered by texinfo 5.0

2013-04-20 Thread Paul Eggert
URL: Summary: doc: fix typos uncovered by texinfo 5.0 Project: findutils Submitted by: eggert Submitted on: Sat 20 Apr 2013 10:10:29 PM PDT Category: find Severity: 3 -

Re: SIGPIPE warning

2013-04-20 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 04/20/2013 02:59 PM, James Youngman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> >> I noticed xargs output a warning about SIGPIPE >> >> $ yes 1234 | xargs -n1 | head -n1 >> 1234 >> xargs: /bin/echo: terminated by signal 13 >> >> That's not normally the case on the shell: >

[bug #38474] Unintended (?) behaviour change of -perm +mode predicate

2013-04-20 Thread Eric Blake
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #38474 (project findutils): > POSIX only calls out symbolic mode, not numeric mode Well, POSIX also calls out numeric mode: -perm [−]onum If the is omitted, the primary shall evaluate as true when the file mode bits exactly match the value of the octal number onum (se

[bug #38474] Unintended (?) behaviour change of -perm +mode predicate

2013-04-20 Thread Eric Blake
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #38474 (project findutils): By my reading, '-perm +0100' is indeed unspecified by POSIX (POSIX only calls out symbolic mode, not numeric mode), so we get to choose how to handle it (the confusion with leading + is applicable to only things like '-perm +u+x'). I see two p

Re: PATCH -- fix off-by-one bugs in locate

2013-04-20 Thread James Youngman
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote: > I sincerely hope this and my two previous messages (together 5 patches) will > make it into findutils-4.4.X. My apologies, this slipped under my radar.But, as you know the copyright assignment is complete and so I just went ahead a

[bug #38474] Unintended (?) behaviour change of -perm +mode predicate

2013-04-20 Thread Ludovic Brenta
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #38474 (project findutils): James, the clause of the POSIX standard you mention is not relevant to this case because the mode was given in octal, not symbolic form. The relevant clause is: -perm [-]onum If the hyphen is omitted, the primary shall evaluate as true wh

Re: SIGPIPE warning

2013-04-20 Thread James Youngman
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > I noticed xargs output a warning about SIGPIPE > > $ yes 1234 | xargs -n1 | head -n1 > 1234 > xargs: /bin/echo: terminated by signal 13 > > That's not normally the case on the shell: > > $ yes 1234 | head -n1 > 1234 > > Nor in other process

Re: How to specify mulitple source directories in updatedb?

2013-04-20 Thread James Youngman
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, > > The manpage of updatedb only shows the case when one source directory > is used. But I have multiple directories need to be indexed. Is there > a way to do so in updatedb? > > updatedb -l 0 -o db_file -U source_directory I believe the simp

[bug #38673] locate segfaults

2013-04-20 Thread James Youngman
Update of bug #38673 (project findutils): Status:None => Duplicate Assigned to:None => jay Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___

[bug #38474] Unintended (?) behaviour change of -perm +mode predicate

2013-04-20 Thread James Youngman
Update of bug #38474 (project findutils): Assigned to:None => jay ___ Follow-up Comment #3: The change was certainly unintended in the sense that when I updated the gnulib version, I did