[bug #35254] Compress sort's temporary files

2019-09-04 Thread Bernhard Voelker
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #35254 (project findutils): If that is sort(1) of the GNU coreutils, then one could set the environment variable TMPDIR to let the tool write the temporary data somewhere else: See : If the environment variable TMPDIR is set,

[bug #45930] -ignore_readdir_race ineffective in find 4.5.11 and 4.5.14

2019-09-04 Thread Bernhard Voelker
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #45930 (project findutils): No, it's not fixed. I've identified at least one place where catching ENOENT helps ... diff --git a/find/ftsfind.c b/find/ftsfind.c index 0d96c4ca..6aeac28c 100644 --- a/find/ftsfind.c +++ b/find/ftsfind.c @@ -401,6 +401,10 @@ consider_visit

Re: distribution tarball format [was: Announcing the release of GNU findutils 4.7.0]

2019-09-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2019-09-03 Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 8/31/19 9:59 AM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: [...] > > Bernhard Voelker wrote: > >> "make dist" no longer builds .tar.gz files. > >> xz is portable enough and in wide-enough use that distributing > >> only .tar.xz files is enough. > > > > It may be enough b