On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:37:48PM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
> >By the way, I'm currently also looking into the possibility of
> >porting findutils to MINIX 3. I miss it badly there!
>
> If it runs under QEMU or (better) Xen I can support it. Otherwise I
> can accept patches, but not guarantee
On 4/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Did you happen to have an idea WRT to the xattr testing problem
(reminder: tests will fail if xattr not supported on test file system)?
Coinvention - we just issue a warning message and skip the tests.
By the way, I'm currently also loo
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:15:02PM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
> ... that reminds me to remind you: don't forget the tests and
> documentation!
Not forgotten :)
Did you happen to have an idea WRT to the xattr testing problem
(reminder: tests will fail if xattr not supported on test file system)?
On 4/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> maynot be available on all platforms, so configure
> should check for it.
Yeah, that's a TODO for me.
I just committed a change to the polzer branch in the git repository
(http://repo.or.cz/w/findutils.git) which does this. More gene
On 4/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[taking this to bug-findutils]
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:40:05AM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
> I'm not sure what the relative performance cost is of the functions
> get_attr() and so forth. I would not be surprised to see that they
> w
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 11:33:54PM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
> When adding an item to struct predicate, please use a comment to
> indicate which predicates it supports.
Done.
> maynot be available on all platforms, so configure
> should check for it.
Yeah, that's a TODO for me.
> fnmatc
[taking this to bug-findutils]
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:40:05AM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
> I'm not sure what the relative performance cost is of the functions
> get_attr() and so forth. I would not be surprised to see that they
> were about as fast as access(), perhaps a little slower. So
Hello James,
the attached patch includes the guts for extended attributes support
in find.
Not yet included:
* wildcard matching attributes with fnmatch()
* success rate estimation
* checks in configure.ac for attr headers and libraries
* documentation changes
Open questi
