From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17243 invoked by alias); 20 Jul 2006 13:17:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 14011 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Jul 2006 13:11:19 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44BF80F1.9040909@byu.net> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:17:00 -0000 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Subject: Updated: findutils-4.3.0-2 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------040202030708060607080609" Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List X-SW-Source: 2006-07/txt/msg00020.txt.bz2 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040202030708060607080609 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-length: 3138 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of findutils, 4.3.0-2, is available, replacing 4.2.27-1 as current. NEWS: ===== This is a new development upstream release. It uses a new algorithm for file traversal, and adds new features that might be withdrawn depending on feedback received. However, as no upstream findutils releases have been made in over 6 months, and as various people have reported that the 4.3 series works better on cygwin than the 4.2 series, I am promoting it to stable. It adds the executable oldfind if you want to stick with the old algorithm for file traveral. Upstream news since 4.2.27 is attached. Additionally, this version patches updatedb to avoid the /proc virtual subtree by default, like it is ignored on Linux. This patch was needed since cygwin 1.5.20 now lists /proc as a member of / by default, but does not (yet) report mounted filesystem types the way Linux does, so the unpatched updatedb was taking forever scanning /proc/registry unnecessarily. DESCRIPTION: ============ 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. UPDATE: ======= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'findutils' from the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. - -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin findutils maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=YOURDOMAIN.COM@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEv4Dw84KuGfSFAYARArCgAKC3TniaMFU3zfaVib+X9XnjD6VPFgCgw4yY odOUKUdcN6Fcn79POQDvQ7A= =VWOD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------040202030708060607080609 Content-Type: text/plain; name="NEWS.short" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="NEWS.short" Content-length: 1125 * Major changes in release 4.3.0 The 4.3.x release series are currently 'development' releases. Please test it, but think carefully before installing it in a production system. New features in findutils-4.3.x are under development; they may change or go away. All changes up to and including findutils-4.2.27 are included in this release. In addition the following changes are new in this release: ** Functional Changes By default, find now uses the fts() function to search the file system. The use of fts greatly increases find's ability to search extremely deep directory hierarchites. You can tell that the version of find you are using uses FTS, because the output of "find --version" will include the word "FTS". Currently two binaries for 'find' are built. The configure option --without-fts can be used to select whether 'find' uses fts: With fts Without fts default configuration find oldfind configure --with-fts find oldfind configure --without-fts ftsfind find New tests, -readable, -writable, -executable. These check that a file can be read, written or executed respectively. --------------040202030708060607080609--