1 GNU findutils NEWS - User visible changes. -*- outline -*- (allout)
2 * Major changes in release 4.2.1
4 *** find -iname now works correctly on systems that have an fnmatch() function
5 that does not support FNM_CASEFOLD
6 *** updatedb now uses signal names for "trap" instead of numbers,
7 as per bug #9465 (see http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/trap.html)
8 *** Better support for systems lacking intmax_t
10 **** findutils now uses a newer version of gnulib (dated 2004-10-17).
12 * Major changes in release 4.2.0
13 ** Functionality Changes
14 *** xargs now works better when the environment variables are very extensive.
15 The xargs command used to run into difficulties if the environment
16 data contained more than 2480 bytes.
17 *** New options -wholename and -iwholename
18 As per the GNU Projecvt coding standard, These are preferred over
19 the -path and -ipath options. Using -ipath now generates a warning,
20 though -path does not (since HPUX also offers -path).
21 *** The environment variable FIND_BLOCK_SIZE is now ignored.
22 *** New option "-ignore_readdir_race"
23 silences an error messages which would otherwise occur if a file is removed
24 after find has read it from the directory using readdir(), but before
25 find stats the file. There is also an option
26 -noignore_readdir_race which has the opposite effect.
27 ** Documentation improvements
28 *** The -size option of find is now documented in more detail
29 *** POSIX compliance and GNU extensions
30 The find manual page also now includes a section
31 which describes the relationship between the features of GNU
32 find and the POSIX standard. Some other small improvements
33 to the find and xargs manual pages have been made.
34 *** The argument to the -fprintf directive is now better documented.
35 The escape code '\0' for the `-printf' predicate of find is now
36 documented, and the documentation for the %k and %b specifiers
38 *** xargs -i is now more clearly documented.
40 *** locate 'pa*d' will now find /etc/passwd (if it exists, of course)
41 *** xargs standard input is not inherited by child processes
42 If the command invoked by xargs reads from its standard input,
43 it now gets nothing, as opposed to stealing data from the
44 list of files that xargs is trying to read.
45 *** Better support for 64-bit systems.
46 *** The command "xargs -i -n1" now works as one might expect,
47 I think this is a strange thing to want to do.
48 *** Arguments to find -mtime that are too large are now diagnosed
49 Previously, this just used to cause find just to do the wrong thing.
50 *** updatedb is now somewhat more robust
51 The updatedb shell script now does not generate an empty
53 *** Sanity-check on some data read from locatedb
54 Locate now detects some types of file corruption in the
56 *** The %k format specifier for -fprintf now works
57 This was broken in 4.1.20.
59 * Major changes in release 4.1.20:
60 ** New maintainer, James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>
61 ** As far as I know, this is the first release after 4.1.7, but I've left
63 ** We now use an "imported" version of gnulib, rather than including
64 a copy of the gnulib code in our CVS repository. There are no
65 differences in the build instructions, though (unless you are
66 building directly from CVS, in which case please read the file
68 ** There are no (deliberate) functional changes in version 4.1.20.
70 * Major changes in release 4.1.7:
71 fix problem so that default "-print" is added when "-prune" is used.
72 security fixes related to directories changing while find is executing.
74 * Major changes in release 4.1.6:
76 added --ignore-case option for locate
78 * Major changes in release 4.1.5:
79 Add support for large files
81 * Major changes in release 4.1.4:
82 bug fixes, more up-to-date languages.
84 * Major changes in release 4.1.3:
85 added internationalization and localization.
87 * Major changes in release 4.1.1:
88 attempt at successful compilation on many platforms after years of neglect
89 "--existing" option added to locate "--prunefs" option added to updatedb
91 * Major changes in release 4.1:
93 ** Distribution renamed to findutils.
94 ** updatedb is now a user command, installed in $exec_prefix/bin
95 instead of $exec_prefix/libexec.
96 ** A few problems in Makefiles and testsuite corrected.
98 * Major changes in release 4.0:
102 *** Man page for updatedb.
103 *** Man page for the locate database formats.
106 *** Takes less CPU time on long paths, because it uses chdir to descend
107 trees, so it does fewer inode lookups.
108 *** Does not get trapped in symbolic link loops when -follow is given.
109 *** Supports "-fstype afs" if you have /afs and /usr/afsws/include
110 and you configure using the --with-afs option.
111 *** New action -fls FILE; like -ls but writes to FILE.
114 *** Supports a new database format, which is 8-bit clean and
115 allows machines with different byte orderings and integer sizes to
116 share the databases. The new locate can also detect and read the
117 old database format automatically. The new databases are typically
118 30% or more larger than the old ones (due to allowing all 8 bits in
119 file names). Search times are approximately the same, or faster on
121 *** Warns if a file name database is more than 8 days old.
124 *** Takes command-line options.
127 *** Performance improved 10-20%.
128 *** The EOF string is not used when -0 is given.
129 *** Now has a test suite. Some minor bugs fixed as a result.
131 * Major changes in release 3.8:
133 ** case insensitive versions of -lname, -name, -path, -regex:
134 -ilname, -iname, -ipath, -iregex
135 ** %F directive for -printf, -fprintf to print file system type
137 * Major changes in release 3.7:
139 ** locate can search multiple databases
140 ** locate has an option to specify the database path
141 ** updatedb no longer goes into an infinite loop with some versions of tail
144 This is used by Emacs' spell checker ispell.el:
146 LocalWords: ansi knr strftime xargs updatedb sh fnmatch hin strcpy
147 LocalWords: lib getstr getline frcode bigram texi depcomp automake
148 LocalWords: strncasecmp strcasecmp LIBOBJS FUNC prunefs allout libexec
149 LocalWords: testsuite Texinfo chdir inode fstype afs fls ls EOF lname
150 LocalWords: regex ilname iname ipath iregex printf fprintf