From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24745 invoked by alias); 10 Jun 2009 02:53:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 16790 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Jun 2009 02:43:05 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A2F1DB1.8070905@byu.net> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:53:00 -0000 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090302 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Subject: [1.7] Updated: findutils-4.5.4-1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------000601090702040601020504" Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-06/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000601090702040601020504 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-length: 2519 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of findutils, 4.5.4-1, is available for those testing cygwin 1.7, leaving 4.5.3-1 as previous, and leaving 4.4.0-3 as current for cygwin 1.5. NEWS: ===== This is a new upstream release, and uses several new features that have been added in cygwin since the last build. Upstream news is attached. See also /usr/share/doc/findutils/. 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://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkovHbEACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAVqACfRmcEcVybVRZ2RuysXqPtgx7m 7EwAn0XUTADqoRBEDAhoJLPA9hB4HAMZ =njCJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------000601090702040601020504 Content-Type: text/plain; name="NEWS.short" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="NEWS.short" Content-length: 1615 * Major changes in release 4.5.4, 2009-03-10 ** Performance changes The ftsfind executable (which is built by default as "find") now calls fts() in such a way that it avoids calling stat() on directory entries, if it doesn't need the information. This can produce a significant speedup on filesystems which don't populate the d_type element of struct dirent, for example reiserfs. Anecdotal evidence suggests this can speed updatedb up from about 30 minutes to 3-4 minutes. The ftsfind executable also now avoids calling stat() functions to discover the inode number of a file, if we already read this information from the directory. This does provide a speed-up, but only for a restricted set of commands such as "find . -inum 4001". This fix is listed below as bug #24342. ** Bug Fixes #25764: remove duplicate entry for 'proc' in updatedb's $PRUNEFS. #25359: find -H wrongly behaves like -L sometimes; this bug affects only filesystems which populate d_type and affects -type and -printf %y. This does not affect the default behaviour of find or find -P. #25144: Misleading error message when argument to find -user is an unknown user or is missing. #25154: Allow compilation with C compilers that don't allow declarations to follow statements. #24342: -inum predicate shoud use dirent.d_ino instead of stat.st_ino (this is a performance bug). ** Translations Updated translations for Bulgarian, German, Irish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukranian, Vietnamese. ** Documentation Changes The file README-CVS has been renamed to README-hacking and improved. --------------000601090702040601020504--