Re: Announcing the release of version 4.3.8 of GNU findutils

2007-06-12 Thread Nix
On 12 Jun 2007, James Youngman spake thusly: > I would like to thank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for help in the preparation > of this release. You're welcome :) I could never work with a crashing locate, it would be even more annoying than a crashing ls. > #20157: Avoid segfault in locate when run as ro

Re: findutils-4.3.2: core dump when run as root on Solaris 10 SPARC

2007-03-01 Thread Nix
On 1 Mar 2007, James Youngman spake thusly: > I think this is the same problem as described in > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs/2676 > > I haven't fixed it yet though. Sorry. If there's something wrong with the patch, please let me know so I can fix it. -- `In the future,

Re: delayed list messages (Re: [4.3 PATCH] locate fails when run as root)

2007-01-19 Thread Nix
On 19 Jan 2007, Bob Proulx spake thusly: > James Youngman wrote: >> Nix wrote: >> > [This is a 3rd resend, since repeated attempts to send this to to >> > bug-findutils@gnu.org have failed; the email vanished without trace; >> > maybe they're stuck i

[4.3 PATCH] locate fails when run as root

2007-01-19 Thread Nix
pm locate: Failed to drop privileges: No such file or directory Er, I don't think so :) that was an open() failure for the secure_db! Thus this patch, against findutils-4.3.2, with a free additional gratuitous comment typo fix: 2007-01-15 Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * locate

[4.3 PATCH] locate fails when run as root

2007-01-19 Thread Nix
pm locate: Failed to drop privileges: No such file or directory Er, I don't think so :) that was an open() failure for the secure_db! Thus this patch, against findutils-4.3.2, with a free additional gratuitous comment typo fix: 2007-01-15 Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * locate