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

2024-12-15 Thread Martin Schwenke
Follow-up Comment #9, bug #45930 (group findutils): The problem seems to be simple fairly simple (but not necessarily simple to solve): gnulib/lib/ftc.c (FTC) seems to have no support for ignoring the readdir race (-ignore_readdir_race). This means that when find recurses into a subdirectory, it

Re: xargs: doesn't fail on missing terminator (which may have severe consequences)

2024-12-15 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 12/15/24 20:47, Bernhard Voelker wrote: `xargs -0` is similar to many tools allowing Zero-delimited input. And often the last entry of input does not have to be Zero-terminated. Here some examples from the GNU coreutils. * `sort -z`: * `uniq -z`: * `cut -z` * `tail -z`: P.S. I forgot to men

Re: xargs: doesn't fail on missing terminator (which may have severe consequences)

2024-12-15 Thread Bernhard Voelker
Hi Chris, On 12/14/24 19:55, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Fri, 2024-12-13 at 23:05 +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote: I never saw a practical example why it would be dangerous. Well it seems to me, that in that case even a 1 in Million chance might have too catastrophic consequences to wait