Re: Can't say "up to and including" with -newer without a symmetrical -older

2013-09-21 Thread jidanni
> "JY" == James Youngman writes: JY> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 11:46 PM, wrote: >> Have it your way. JY> Wow, what did I say to provoke that reaction? I don't know if it is worth implementing either. I apparently did at one time but it would take a lot of concentration for me to figure out w

Re: Can't say "up to and including" with -newer without a symmetrical -older

2013-09-21 Thread James Youngman
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 11:46 PM, wrote: > Have it your way. Wow, what did I say to provoke that reaction? I just wanted to be sure the change was worthwhile. Is that so burdensome a request? James.

Re: Can't say "up to and including" with -newer without a symmetrical -older

2013-09-21 Thread jidanni
P.S. odd how one is forced to search Google http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Re%3A+Can%27t+say+%22up+to+and+including%22+with+-newer+without+a+symmetrical+-older%22 for the original message, given the headers I received.

Re: Can't say "up to and including" with -newer without a symmetrical -older

2013-09-21 Thread jidanni
Have it your way. What really bothers me is cpio's saying it won't copy because an older or same version exists. Why can't it cough up which and not leave the user the task...

Re: docs for "--execdir" confusing

2013-09-21 Thread James Youngman
Thanks for spotting this stupid documentation error. I have fixed it with the attached patch. I hope you find the updated documentation clearer. If not, please shout. Thanks, James. 0001-find-state-that-execdir-command-is-run-locally-to-th.patch Description: Binary data

Re: Can't say "up to and including" with -newer without a symmetrical -older

2013-09-21 Thread James Youngman
Could you describe a significant use case where the proposed feature would be essential? I understand your symmetry point, but before committing all future findutils maintainers to maintaining the additional code for the lifetime of the package, we should be sure that's justified. James.

Re: xargs -p operations out of order!

2013-09-21 Thread James Youngman
Thanks for the patch. Applied (since you already have a copyright assignment in place) and pushed. I made a small wording change and a ChangeLog entry. Thanks again, James.

Re: [PATCH] find: fix potential buffer overflow in -execdir and -okdir

2013-09-21 Thread James Youngman
Thanks, I applied this directly (since you already have a copyright assignment for findutils). Sorry about the delay. James. On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > * lib/buildcmd.c (bc_push_arg): Take prefix length into account > to avoid state->argbuf overflow. > * NEWS: M