From: "Cygwin findutils co-Maintainer" <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca>
To: "Cygwin Announcements" <cygwin-announce@cygwin.com>
Subject: Updated: findutils 4.9
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 15:18:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220205151838.39146-1-Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca> (raw)
The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:
* findutils 4.9
The findutils package contains programs which will help you locate files
on your system.
The find utility searches through a hierarchy of directories looking for
files which match a certain set of criteria (such as a filename pattern).
The xargs utility builds and executes command lines from standard input
arguments (usually lists of file names generated by the find command).
The locate utility scans a database of filenames and displays matches.
The updatedb utility builds the database for locate.
For more information see the project home page:
https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/
Please see below or read /usr/share/doc/findutils/NEWS after
installation for details of changes since the previous release:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/tree/NEWS
Noteworthy changes in release 4.9.0 (2022-02-22) [stable]
New features in find
* find now supports the -files0-from option to be able to safely pass an
arbitrary number of starting points to the tool. The option requires a
file name as argument, or "-" to read from standard input. The entries
in that file have to be separated by NUL characters.
Changes in locate / updatedb
* updatedb now skips (fuse-mounted) s3fs filesystems by default, i.e.,
unless PRUNEFS is set.
Bug Fixes
* 'find -D stat -L ...' no longer determines SELinux security
information as if the -L option was not given.
* 'find -inum' and 'find -printf %i' now also work on platforms which
allow the inode number Zero; e.g. the GNU/Hurd uses inode number 0 for
/dev/console. Previously, find(1) would abort when visiting such a
file.
* findutils-4.8.0 failed to build on some MacOS versions. Fixed by a
gnulib update.
Documentation Changes
* The find.1 man page and the Texinfo manual now show environment
variables in a consistent style.
* Furthermore, both add the description of the -printf format directive
'%B', for a file's birth time, and its limitations.
* The description of the -delete action has been improved and aligned
among the manual page and the Texinfo documentation.
* Various other documentation fixes - syntax issues and typos.
* The output of 'find --help' now reads better.
* The HTML online manual is using the official GNU stylesheet again.
Changes to the build process
* The find version without FTS, oldfind, has been completely removed. It
has not been installed since 4.5.18 (2015), and was only still used in
tests.
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