Uploaded GIT head to Debian/unstable

2016-02-12 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, FYI I have uploaded findutils GIT head (with gnulib GIT head) as of 2016-02-26 to Debian unstable. The major incentive for this step was http://bugs.debian.org/812762 a gnulib related testsuite error in some locales. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His oth

Re: find traverses through directory while it's excluded

2016-02-12 Thread Dale R. Worley
"PenguinWhispererThe ." writes: > So while someone might think -not -iwholename excludes that directory that > is looping it will still traverse it. > Why is find still traversing if a directory is excluded? > Is this for corner-cases? Can someone give an example of those? > > I understand there i

find traverses through directory while it's excluded

2016-02-12 Thread PenguinWhispererThe .
Good day to you all, A user experienced something in find that makes me wonder why find is behaving like this(maybe it's actually a "feature", something that in corner-cases is useful). It happens when excluding a directory with the ! parameter (-not). So find -L /src/tree/ -not -iwholename *excl