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3 * Major changes in release 4.2.30-CVS
7 This version should build on Solaris and HPUX again (bug #17861).
9 Savannah Bug #18433: findutils now compiles if "--enable-debug" was
10 specified as an option to configure. Previously this caused a
11 compilation failure in find.
13 * Major changes in release 4.2.29
15 ** Documentation Fixes
17 The global effect of options (other than -daystart and -follow) is now
18 explained more clearly in the manual page. Savannah bug #15360.
22 #17782: find -execdir now correctly puts the prefix "./" before the
23 expansion of "{}" rather than at the start of the argument it appears
24 in. Please note that if you use the -exec or -execdir actions with a
25 shell, then you may be vulnerable to shell code injection attacks, so
26 don't do that. It's not a security defect in find - you should not be
27 passing untrusted data (such as file names chosen by other people) to
30 #17477: find -printf '%' (that is, where the format has a trailing %)
31 now generates an error message.
34 * Major changes in release 4.2.28
38 Savannah bug #15800: If find finds more subdirectories within a parent
39 directory than it previously expected to based on the link count of
40 the parent, the resulting error message now gives the correct
41 directory name (previously an error message was issued but it
42 specified the wrong directory).
44 Savannah bug #16738: "find .... -exec ... {} +" now works if you have
45 a large environment and many files must be passed to the -exec
46 action. The same problem affected the -execdir action, though since
47 the number of files in a given directory will normally be smaller, the
48 problem was worse for -exec.
50 Savannah bug #16579: Updatedb now works if it is running as a user
51 whose login shell is not actually a shell.
54 The following translations have been updated:
55 Vietnamese, Belarusian, Catalan, Danish, German, Greek, Esperanto,
56 Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Irish, Galician, Croatian, Hungarian,
57 Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Luganda, Malay, Dutch, Polish,
58 Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda,
59 Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (simplified),
60 Chinese (traditional), Bulgarian
63 * Major changes in release 4.2.27
65 ** Warnings of Future Changes
67 The test -perm /000 currently matches no files, but for greater
68 consistency with -perm -000, this will be changed to match all files;
69 this change will probably be made in early 2006. Meanwhile, a warning
70 message is given if you do this.
74 If xargs is invoked with many short arguments on PPC systems running
75 the Linux kernel, we no longer get an "argument list too long" error
76 from the operating system.
78 Fixed a bug in the test suite which caused it to spuriously fail on
79 systems where ARG_MAX is different to the value used by the Linux
80 kernel on 32-bit x86-architecture systems.
82 On systems running the Linux kernel, "find -printf %F" no longer
83 produces the wrong answer for files on filesystems that have been
84 remounted elsewhere using "mount --bind". (Savannah bug #14921).
86 ** Documentation Changes
88 Following some extensive and detailed review comments from Aaron
89 Hawley, the material in the manual pages and the Texinfo manual are
92 The %M format specifier of "find -printf" is now documented, although
93 it has existed since release 4.2.5.
95 The 'find' manual page now correctly documents the fact that -regex
96 defaults to using Emacs-style regular expressions (though this can be
99 * Major changes in release 4.2.26
101 ** Public Service Announcements
103 I'd like to point out a second time that the interpretation of '-perm
104 +mode' has changed to be more POSIX-compliant. If you want the old
105 behaviour of the GNU extension you should use '-perm /mode'. See the
106 NEWS entry for findutils version 4.2.21 for details.
108 ** Functional Changes
110 The xargs command now supports a new option (--delimiter) which allows
111 input items to be separated by characters other than null and
112 whitespace. This resolves Savannah support request sr #102914.
114 Sometimes find needs to read the /etc/mtab file (or perform the
115 equivalent operation on systems not using /etc/mtab). If this
116 information is needed butnot available, find now exits with an error
117 message non-zero status. If the information is not needed, find will
120 A new xargs option --delimiter allows the input delimiter to be
121 changed (previously \0 was the only choice unless you use the -L
122 option, which changes other semantics too).
126 If the environment size is too large to allow xargs to operate
127 normally, 'xargs --help' still works (now).
129 If the input to xargs is a large number of very short options (for
130 example, one character each), earlier versions of xargs would fail
131 with 'Argument list too long'. However, since this is precisely the
132 problem that xargs was invented to solve, this is a bug. Hence on
133 those systems we now correctly use a shorter command line. This
134 problem particularly affected 64-bit Linux systems because of the
135 larger size of pointers, although 32-bit Linux systems were also
136 affected (albeit for longer command lines). In theory the same
137 problem could affect 'find -exec {} +', but that's much less likely
138 (even so, the bug is fixed there too).
140 Bugfix for an unusual failure mode (Savannah bug #14842) where an
141 attempt to allocate more space for directory contents succeeds but is
142 incorrectly diagnosed as a failure. The likelihood of you
143 experiencing this depends on your architecture, operating system and
144 resource limits. This failure has been observed in a directory
145 containing 35396 entries.
147 ** Documentation Changes
149 The EXAMPLES section of the find manual page now correctly describes
150 the symbolic and octal modes for the -perm test.
152 The documentation and "--help" usage information for the -L, -l, -I
153 and -i options have been clarified (but the behaviour has not changed).
155 The documentation now explains more clearly what happens when you use
158 * Major changes in release 4.2.25
162 find -perm /440 (which should succeed if a file is readable by its
163 owner or group) now works. Previously there was a bug which caused
164 this to be treated as "find -perm 440".
166 Some files in the xargs test suite have been renamed to avoid problems
167 on operating systems whoch cannot distinguish filenames on the basis
168 of upper/lower case distinctions.
170 The software now builds on Cygwin, including the generated file
173 Findutils should now build once again on systems supporting AFS, but
174 this support has not recently been fully tested. Findutils should
175 also (once again) build on Cygwin.
179 The test suite for find is now much more extensive.
181 * Major changes in release 4.2.24
183 ** Documentation Changes
185 The manual now includes a "Worked Examples" section which talks about
186 the various ways in which findutils can be used to perform common
187 tasks, and why some of these alternatives are better than others.
189 The -I option of xargs (which is required by the POSIX standard) is
192 We now document the fact that find ensures that commands run by -ok
193 and -okdir don't steal find's input. Find does this by redirecting
194 the command's standard input from stdin.
196 Many documentation readability enhancements and proofreading fixes
197 were contributed by Aaron Hawley.
199 ** Functional Changes
201 *** Functional changes in locate
203 The "--regex" option of locate now assumes the regular expression to
204 be in the same syntax as is used in GNU Emacs, though this can be
205 changed with the new option --regextype. This is a change from the
206 existing behaviour (which was to use POSIX Basic Regular Expressions).
207 Since this feature is releatively new anyway, I though it was more
208 useful to have compatibility between regular expression handling in
209 find and locate than to maintain the short-lived previous behaviour of
212 The locate program now also supports a "--regextype" long option which
213 controls which regular expression syntax is understood by locate.
214 This is a long option and has no single-letter 'short option'
217 *** Functional changes in find
219 The regular expression syntax understood by "find" can be changed with
220 the -regextype option; this option is positional, meaning that you can
221 have several tests, each using a distinct syntax (this is not
222 recommended practice however).
224 The default regular expression syntax is substantially the same as
225 that recognised by GNU Emacs, except for the fact that "." will match
228 The leaf optimisation can be disabled with the configure option
229 "--disable-leaf-optimisation", which is equivalent to specifying
230 "-noleaf" on all find command lines. This is useful for systems
231 having filesystems which do not provide traditional Unix behaviour for
232 the link count on directories (for example Cygwin and the Solaris 9
233 HSFS implementation).
237 *** Bug Fixes for find
239 The -iregex test now works once again on systems that lack
240 re_search() (that is, systems on which findutils needs to use the
241 gnulib version of this function).
243 find -regex now once again uses GNU Emacs-compatible regular
246 If invoked with stderr closed, the -fprint and -fprintf actions now no
247 longer cause error messages to be sent into the output file.
249 If the link count of a directory is less that two, the leaf
250 optimisation is now disabled for that directory. This should allow
251 searching of non-Unix filesystems to be more reliable on systems that
252 don't take the trouble to make their filesystems look like traditional
253 Unix filesystems. Some filesystems don't even take the trouble to
254 have a link count of less than two and for these, -noleaf is still
255 required unless --disable-leaf-optimisation was used at configure time.
257 The "%Y" directive for the -printf action now no longer changes find's
258 idea of the mode of the file, so this means among other things that
259 "-printf %Y %y" now works properly. This is Savannah bug #13973.
261 * Major changes in release 4.2.23
263 ** Documentation Changes
265 The -L and -I options of xargs are currently incompatible (but should
268 Improved the documentation for -execdir and -okdir.
270 ** Functional Changes to updatedb
272 File names ending in "/" which are specified as an argument to
273 --prunepaths (or in $PRUNEPATHS) don't work, so we now issue an error
274 message if the user tries to do that. The obvious exception of course
275 is "/" which does work and is not rejected.
278 * Major changes in release 4.2.22
282 If a directory entry searched with "find -L" is a symbolic link to
283 ".", we no longer loop indefinitely. This problem affected find
284 versions 4.2.19, 4.2.20 and 4.2.21. This problem allows users to make
285 "find" loop indefinitely. This is in effect a denial of service and
286 could be used to prevent updates to the locate database or to defeat
287 file security checks based on find. However, it should be noted that
288 you should not use "find -L" in security-sensitive scenarios.
292 None in this release.
294 ** Functional Changes to locate
296 A locate database can now be supplied on stdin, using '-' as a element
297 of the database-path. If more than one database-path element is '-',
298 later instances are ignored.
300 A new option to locate, '--all' ('-A') causes matches to be limited to
301 entries which match all given patterns, not entries which match
302 one or more patterns.
304 ** Documentation Changes
306 Some typos in the manual pages have been fixed. Various parts of the
307 manual now point out that it is good practice to quote the argument of
308 "-name". The manpage now has a "NON-BUGS" section which explains some
309 symptoms that look like bugs but aren't. The explanations of the "%k"
310 and "%b" directives to "find -printf" have been imrpoved.
313 * Major changes in release 4.2.21
314 ** Functional Changes to find
316 The GNU extension "find ... -perm +MODE" has been withdrawn because it
317 is incompatible with POSIX in obscure cases like "find ... -perm ++r".
318 Use the new syntax "find ... -perm /MODE" instead. Old usages will
319 still continue to work, so long as they don't conflict with POSIX.
321 If the output is going to a terminal, the -print, -fprint, -printf and
322 -fprintf actions now quote "unusual" characters to prevent unwanted
323 effects on the terminal. See "Unusual Characters in File Names" for
324 further details. There is no change to the behaviour when the output
325 is not going to a terminal. The locate program does the same thing,
326 unless the -0 option is in effect (in which case the filenames are
329 ** Functional Changes to locate
331 The locate command will now read each locate database at most once.
332 This means that if you are using multiple databases and are searching
333 for more than one name, the results will now be printed in a different
334 order (and if you specified a small limit with --limit, you may get a
335 different set of results).
337 A new option '--print' for locate causes it to print the matching
338 results even if the '--count' or '--statistics' option is in effect.
341 find /blah/blah/blah -depth -empty now works once again.
343 The -regex and -iregex tests of find now correctly accept POSIX Basic
344 Regular Expressions. (Savannah bug #12999)
346 The updatedb program now works on systems where "su" does not support
347 the "-s" option, for example Solaris.
349 * Major changes in release 4.2.20
350 ** Internationalization and Localization
351 Updated Vietnamese and Dutch translations.
354 Minor bugfix affecting only those who compile from the CVS repository,
355 as opposed to those who compile from the source releases.
357 * Major changes in release 4.2.19
360 find should now no longer hang on systems which lack the O_NOFOLLOW
361 flag to open(2) and which are clients of an unresponsive NFS server
362 (Savannah bug #12044).
364 We now avoid inappropriately failing for "find -L foo" or "find -H
365 foo" if foo is a symbolic link (Savannah bug #12181). Previously we
366 used to fail with the error message "Too many levels of symbolic
369 "find . -false -exec foo {} +" no longer runs an extra instance of foo
370 when find exits (Savannah bug #12230).
372 If the chdir() safety check fails but we can no longer get back to
373 where we started, exit with an explanatory (fatal) error message.
374 This does not happen on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD because the safety check
375 is not needed (the security problem the safety check protects against
376 is prevented in a cleaner way on those systems).
378 "make distclean" no longer deletes regex.c (which "make all" needs).
380 ** Functionality Changes
381 "find -printf "%h\n" will now print "." for files in the current directory.
382 Previously it printed nothing (but there was a bug in the %h
383 implementation anyway). This fixes Savannah bug #12085.
385 Should now build (again) on non-C99-compliant systems.
387 ** Documentation enhancements
388 Fixed some typos and clarified wording in "Working with automounters".
390 ** Internationalization and Localization
391 New Vietnamese message translation.
393 * Major changes in release 4.2.18
395 *** "find -depth" was missing out non-leaf directories when they contain
396 non-directories. This affected findutils releases 4.2.15,
397 4.2.16 and 4.2.17, but the bug is now fixed.
398 *** Find no longer hangs on systems which are clients of unresponsive
400 ** Documentation improvements
401 *** Improvements and corrections to the find.1 manpage, including corrections to the descriptions of -H and -L.
403 * Major changes in release 4.2.17
405 *** bug #11861 undefined symbol "basename" on IRIX 5.3
406 *** bug #11865 xargs -i regression (as compared to findutils-4.2.12)
407 *** bug #11866 Typo in pred_okdir renders it useless (affecting 4.2.16 only)
408 *** patch #3723 fix recent process_top_path change (for -execdir on /)
409 *** Fixing bug #11866 and applying patch #3723 made -execdir work much better.
410 *** find bar/baz/ugh now works again if baz is a symbolic link (broken
413 * Major changes in release 4.2.16
414 ** Functionality Changes
415 *** Updated the message catalogues for the translated messages.
416 *** The subfs filesystem is now treated the same as the autofs
418 *** New translations: Belarusian, Catalan, Greek, Esperanto,
419 Finnish, Irish, Croatian, Hungarian, Japanese, Luganda,
420 Malay, Romanian, Slovenian, Serbian, Chinese (simplified).
423 *** The -execdir action now works correctly for files named on the
426 * Major changes in release 4.2.15
427 ** Functionality Changes
428 *** locate now supports matching regular expression (--regex).
429 *** --enable-d_type-optimization (introduced in findutils 4.2.13) is now turned on by default.
431 * Major changes in release 4.2.14
432 ** Functionality Changes
433 *** New options -L, -P, -H for locate. The work in the same was as the same options for find.
435 *** Don't include the "findutils/find/testsuite/find.gnu" subdirectory in the
436 distributed tar file more than once.
437 *** Should now build on Solaris once again.
438 *** -xtype and -printf %Y now work correctly for symbolic links once again
439 ** Documentation improvements
440 *** All options for "locate" are now documented
442 * Major changes in release 4.2.13
443 ** Performance Enhancements
444 *** On Linux and some other systems, a large performance improvement,
445 because we can eliminate many of the calls to lstat() (in extreme
446 cases, 99% of them). Limited testing shows a 2x speedup on NFS
447 filesystems. Other systems which can make use of this enhancement
448 include Mac OS X and *BSD.
450 * Major changes in release 4.2.12
451 ** Functionality Changes
452 *** find is now POSIX-compliant, as far as I know.
453 *** -exec ... {} + now works.
454 *** New actions -execdir and -okdir which are like -exec and -ok but more secure.
455 *** "locate -w" is now a synonym for "locate --wholepath".
456 *** An empty path entry in the locate database path (for example "::" in
457 $LOCATE_PATH or in the argument to "locate -d") is taken to mean
458 the default database, whose name is hard-coded in locate.
460 *** If find or xargs cannot write to stdout, for example because
461 output is redirected to a file and the disk is full, the
462 relevant program will return a non-zero exit status.
464 * Major changes in release 4.2.11
466 *** Compilation fix for systems without EOVERFLOW.
467 *** More helpful error message if you make a mistake with (, ), -o or -a.
468 ** Functionality Changes
469 *** If you have unclosed parentheses on the find command line,
470 or any of a number of similar problems, find will now produce
471 a more helpful error message.
472 *** locate -b is now a synonym for locate --basename
473 *** locate now supports a --statistics (or -S) option, which prints some
474 statistics about the locate databases.
475 *** Implemented the -samefile option.
476 ** Documentation improvements
477 *** New chapter in the manual, "Security Considerations".
478 *** Better documentation for -prune (Mainly thanks to Stepan Kasal)
480 *** locate's options -i and -w now work with the -e option (previously a bug
483 * Major changes in release 4.2.10
485 *** Portability fix for fstype.c: should now compile on UNICOS, and possibly
486 also produce useful results on BeOS and Dolphin, perhaps other
489 * Major changes in release 4.2.9
490 ** Functionality Changes
491 *** xargs no longer treats a line containing only an underscore as a logical end-of-file. To obtain the behaviour that was previously the default, use "-E_".
492 *** xargs now supports the POSIX options -E, -I and -L. These are synonyms
493 for the existing options -e, -i and -l, but the latter three are
496 *** xargs -n NUM now invokes a command as soon as it has NUM arguments.
497 Previously, it waited until NUM+1 items had been read, and then
498 invoked the command with NUM arguments, saving the remaining one
500 *** If "find -L" discovers a symbolic link loop, an error message is issued.
501 *** If you specify a directory on the find command line, but -prune
502 is applied to it, find will no longer chdir() into it anyway.
503 ** Documentation improvements
504 *** The precise interpretation of the arguments to the -atime, -ctime
505 and similar tests in find has been documented more clearly.
507 * Major changes in release 4.2.8
508 *** Bugfix to the findutils 4.2.7 automount handling on Solaris. This
509 worked to some extent in findutils-4.2.7, but is much improved in
512 * Major changes in release 4.2.7
513 ** Functionality Changes
514 *** xargs can now read a list of arguments from a named file, allowing
515 the invoked program to use the same stdin as xargs started with
516 (for example ``xargs --arg-file=todo emacs'').
517 ** Documentation improvements
518 *** The Texinfo manual now has an extra chapter, "Error Messages". Most
519 error messages are self-explanatory, but some of the ones which
520 are not are explained in this chapter.
522 *** Avoid trying to link against -lsun on UNICOS, which doesn't need it or
524 *** Bugfix to the findutils 4.2.6 automount handling (which hadn't been enabled
526 *** Reenabled internationalisation support (which had been accidentally
527 disabled in findutils-4.2.5).
529 * Major changes in release 4.2.6
531 *** find now copes rather better when a directory appears to change just as
532 it is about to start examining it, which happens with automount.
533 This is because automount mounts filesystems as you change
534 directory into them. This should resolve Savannah bugs #3998,
537 * Major changes in release 4.2.5
538 ** Functionality Changes
539 *** The POSIX options -H and -L are supported. These control whether or not
540 find will follow symbolic links.
541 *** The BSD option -P is also now supported (though in any case
543 ** Documentation improvements
544 *** Better documentation for "xargs -i".
546 *** "make install" now respects DESTDIR when generating localstatedir.
547 (this is only relevant if you are installing to some location
548 other than the one that you indictaed when you ran "configure").
549 *** Compatible with automake versions 1.8 and 1.9.
550 *** Build problems on UNICOS now fixed, though the linker will still generate
551 warnings because we try to link with the nonexistent library
552 "-lsun". Edit $(LIBS) to work around this problem.
554 * Major changes in release 4.2.4
555 ** Functionality Changes
556 *** If your system sort command has a working "-z" option, updatedb will
557 now correctly handle newline characters in filenames (as will
559 *** xargs now uses 128Kb of command line by default (less if the system
560 doesn't support that much).
561 *** If you specify a 'find' option after non-option, a warning message
562 is now issued. Options should be specified immediately after the
563 list of paths to search. These warnings are enabled if you
564 specify the -warn option, or if stdin is a tty. They are diabled
565 by the use of the -nowarn option.
566 *** Like find, the locate program now supports an option --null (short form -0)
567 which changes the result separator from newline to NULL.
568 *** Locate supports the option -c (long form --count) which suppresses normal
569 output but prints on stdout the number of results produced (like
571 *** Locate supports the option -l (long form --limit) which limits the
572 number of results. This is useful if you only want to find out if
573 there are copies of a certain file on the system, but don't want
574 to wait for the entire locate database to be searched.
575 *** Locate now has an option --basename which forces the specified pattern to
576 be matched against the basename of the entries in the locate
577 database, rather than the whole name. The default behaviour
578 (matching against the whole name of the file including all the
579 parent directory names) corresponds to the option --wholename.
580 *** updatedb has a new option, --findoptions, that can be used to
581 pass extra options through to the find command that it uses.
583 *** "find -printf '%H\n'" now works (rather than segfaulting) on
584 systems that have non-writable string constants.
585 *** Better POSIX compliance for the -s option to xargs (out of range
586 values should just result in bounding to the correct range, not an
587 error, so now we just print a warning message and adjust the
589 *** Corrected section numbers of manual page cross-references
591 * Major changes in release 4.2.3
592 ** Functionality Changes
593 *** Added new action -delete which deletes things that find matches.
594 *** Added new action -quit which causes find to exit immediately.
595 *** A new format directive '%D' for "find -printf" prints the device number.
596 *** The -ls predicate no longer truncates user or group names.
597 *** Added new option "-d" which is a synonym for "-depth" for compatibility
598 with Mac OS, OpenBSD and FreeBSD. This option is already
599 deprecated since the POSIX standard specifies "-depth".
600 *** Added two new format specifiers to the -printf action; these are
601 %y and %Y. They indicate the type of the file as a single letter;
602 these are the same latters as are used by the "-type" test.
603 *** If a parent directory changes during the execution of find,
604 the error message we issue identifies the nature of the change
605 (for example the previous and current inode numbers of the
606 directory we've just returned out of).
608 *** Non-functional code changes to silence compiler warnings.
610 * Major changes in release 4.2.2
611 ** Documentation improvements
612 *** "find ... -exec {}+" is not yet supported.
614 *** Fixed compilation problems on Solaris, RedHat EL AS 2.1, Irix, AIX
615 *** Work around possible compiler bug on HP-UX 11.23 for ia64
616 *** The built-in internationalisation support now works again.
618 *** We now import the gnulib source in the way it is intended to be used,
619 which means among other things that we only have one config.h file
621 *** Functions which findutils requires but which are not present in
622 gnulib are now defined in "libfind.a". This is in the lib
623 directory, while gnulib is in the gnulib subdirectory.
624 *** Fixed a typo in the address of the FSF in many of the file headers.
626 * Major changes in release 4.2.1
628 *** 'find -name \*bar now matches .foobar, because the POSIX standard
629 requires it, as explained at
630 http://standards.ieee.org/reading/ieee/interp/1003-2-92_int/pasc-1003.2-126.html
632 * Major changes in release 4.2.1
634 *** find -iname now works correctly on systems that have an fnmatch() function
635 that does not support FNM_CASEFOLD
636 *** updatedb now uses signal names for "trap" instead of numbers,
637 as per bug #9465 (see http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/trap.html)
638 *** Better support for systems lacking intmax_t
640 **** findutils now uses a newer version of gnulib (dated 2004-10-17).
642 * Major changes in release 4.2.0
643 ** Functionality Changes
644 *** xargs now works better when the environment variables are very extensive.
645 The xargs command used to run into difficulties if the environment
646 data contained more than 20480 bytes.
647 *** New options -wholename and -iwholename
648 As per the GNU Projecvt coding standard, These are preferred over
649 the -path and -ipath options. Using -ipath now generates a warning,
650 though -path does not (since HPUX also offers -path).
651 *** The environment variable FIND_BLOCK_SIZE is now ignored.
652 *** New option "-ignore_readdir_race"
653 silences an error messages which would otherwise occur if a file is removed
654 after find has read it from the directory using readdir(), but before
655 find stats the file. There is also an option
656 -noignore_readdir_race which has the opposite effect.
657 ** Documentation improvements
658 *** The -size option of find is now documented in more detail
659 *** POSIX compliance and GNU extensions
660 The find manual page also now includes a section
661 which describes the relationship between the features of GNU
662 find and the POSIX standard. Some other small improvements
663 to the find and xargs manual pages have been made.
664 *** The argument to the -fprintf directive is now better documented.
665 The escape code '\0' for the `-printf' predicate of find is now
666 documented, and the documentation for the %k and %b specifiers
668 *** xargs -i is now more clearly documented.
670 *** locate 'pa*d' will now find /etc/passwd (if it exists, of course)
671 *** xargs standard input is not inherited by child processes
672 If the command invoked by xargs reads from its standard input,
673 it now gets nothing, as opposed to stealing data from the
674 list of files that xargs is trying to read.
675 *** Better support for 64-bit systems.
676 *** The command "xargs -i -n1" now works as one might expect,
677 I think this is a strange thing to want to do.
678 *** Arguments to find -mtime that are too large are now diagnosed
679 Previously, this just used to cause find just to do the wrong thing.
680 *** updatedb is now somewhat more robust
681 The updatedb shell script now does not generate an empty
682 database if it fails.
683 *** Sanity-check on some data read from locatedb
684 Locate now detects some types of file corruption in the
686 *** The %k format specifier for -fprintf now works
687 This was broken in 4.1.20.
689 * Major changes in release 4.1.20:
690 ** New maintainer, James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>
691 ** As far as I know, this is the first release after 4.1.7, but I've left
693 ** We now use an "imported" version of gnulib, rather than including
694 a copy of the gnulib code in our CVS repository. There are no
695 differences in the build instructions, though (unless you are
696 building directly from CVS, in which case please read the file
698 ** There are no (deliberate) functional changes in version 4.1.20.
700 * Major changes in release 4.1.7:
701 fix problem so that default "-print" is added when "-prune" is used.
702 security fixes related to directories changing while find is executing.
704 * Major changes in release 4.1.6:
705 correct bug in prune.
706 added --ignore-case option for locate
708 * Major changes in release 4.1.5:
709 Add support for large files
711 * Major changes in release 4.1.4:
712 bug fixes, more up-to-date languages.
714 * Major changes in release 4.1.3:
715 added internationalization and localization.
717 * Major changes in release 4.1.1:
718 attempt at successful compilation on many platforms after years of neglect
719 "--existing" option added to locate "--prunefs" option added to updatedb
721 * Major changes in release 4.1:
723 ** Distribution renamed to findutils.
724 ** updatedb is now a user command, installed in $exec_prefix/bin
725 instead of $exec_prefix/libexec.
726 ** A few problems in Makefiles and testsuite corrected.
728 * Major changes in release 4.0:
732 *** Man page for updatedb.
733 *** Man page for the locate database formats.
736 *** Takes less CPU time on long paths, because it uses chdir to descend
737 trees, so it does fewer inode lookups.
738 *** Does not get trapped in symbolic link loops when -follow is given.
739 *** Supports "-fstype afs" if you have /afs and /usr/afsws/include
740 and you configure using the --with-afs option.
741 *** New action -fls FILE; like -ls but writes to FILE.
744 *** Supports a new database format, which is 8-bit clean and
745 allows machines with different byte orderings and integer sizes to
746 share the databases. The new locate can also detect and read the
747 old database format automatically. The new databases are typically
748 30% or more larger than the old ones (due to allowing all 8 bits in
749 file names). Search times are approximately the same, or faster on
751 *** Warns if a file name database is more than 8 days old.
754 *** Takes command-line options.
757 *** Performance improved 10-20%.
758 *** The EOF string is not used when -0 is given.
759 *** Now has a test suite. Some minor bugs fixed as a result.
761 * Major changes in release 3.8:
763 ** case insensitive versions of -lname, -name, -path, -regex:
764 -ilname, -iname, -ipath, -iregex
765 ** %F directive for -printf, -fprintf to print file system type
767 * Major changes in release 3.7:
769 ** locate can search multiple databases
770 ** locate has an option to specify the database path
771 ** updatedb no longer goes into an infinite loop with some versions of tail
774 This is used by Emacs' spell checker ispell.el:
776 LocalWords: ansi knr strftime xargs updatedb sh fnmatch hin strcpy
777 LocalWords: lib getstr getline frcode bigram texi depcomp automake
778 LocalWords: strncasecmp strcasecmp LIBOBJS FUNC prunefs allout libexec
779 LocalWords: testsuite Texinfo chdir inode fstype afs fls ls EOF lname
780 LocalWords: regex ilname iname ipath iregex printf fprintf