-*-outline-*- * lib/filemode.c has "# undef S_ISDOOR" added. This should be moved upstream. * -fstype core dumps on sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3_U1 with gcc-2.95.2 This is on foxtrot.rahul.net. dbx does not work on compiled find. Perhaps gcc is installed incorrectly. "find / -fstype ufs" core dumps quickly. cc works correctly. * Speed of locate without "-i" option needs to be increased. * There are many bugs to be fixed and features to be added to findutils. The current distribution is a snapshot which fixes many problems, but leaves others unsolved. Many of the known problems are not listed below. Over the next few releases, I hope to fix more items, and add the unfixed problems below. * Internationalization ** Is ansi2knr internationalized? Does it need to be? ** Should these files be internationalized? strftime.c ** Should translated long options be offered in locate and xargs? ** updatedb.sh should be internationalized as well * new standards with Austin group ** "-H" and "-L" options to find were added by Austin group standards. They need to be implemented. **Austin added the following options to xargs: -I perhaps replaces -i -L perhaps replaces -l -E slightly different from -e * Should fnmatch.h be a link to fnmatch.h.in? See tar distribution for an example. * Eliminate unnecessary strcpy calls in xargs. * lib/getline.c getline.c contains a function getstr which is needed in locate, but is not in the standard library. In fact getstr is in curses. This problem needs to be fixed. Can getstr be removed? Can getline.c be optionally included, or is it mandatory? * man pages for frcode, bigram, and code Perhaps a better description in texi pages as well. * Add option for find to sort output in lexical order for use for updatedb olarsac@airfrance.fr (Olivier) made the following suggestion: As I was running thru the code looking for the bug I wondered why the updatedb has to use sort... why not add an option to find that sorts the output in lexical order? my point is: - sort on a big list is costly (here we do locate on big big file system) - find may (in theory) sort incrementally very easily by sorting only the current directory entries before recursion - it would also solve the lack of \0 sort that prevents you to use the -print0 to handle \n in file names properly * large file problems depcomp gets added by automake strncasecmp is needed which requires strcasecmp getline.c temporarily removed from Makefile.am remove getline.o from LIBOBJS remove extra AM_FUNC_GETLINE * Is lib/strcasecmp.c required? * xargs: allow newline or arbitrary character to separate arguments Tyler 'Crackerjack' MacDonald suggested that it would be nice if newlines could separate arguments to xargs. This would allow a single line to be used as an argument, regardless of white space, quotes, and backslash. A function similar to read_string in xargs.c can be written which replaces the line: if (c == '\0') with the appropriate character. * investigate _LIBC when used with TOLOWER and TOUPPER _LIBC is used to determine whether TOLOWER should check isupper first. Is there something better to check? Alternatively, can tolower be checked at run time to determine whether isupper should be called first. * make findutils multibyte safe Bruno Haible reported many problems with findutils and multibyte. * BeOS problems with multibyte Bruno Haible reported problems with BeOS. * What should be the default value of PRUNEFS in updatedb? Currently, it is: : ${PRUNEFS="nfs NFS proc"} Perhaps it should default to nothing. * Include example of use of updatedb in documentation. Use something close to the Debian daily cron job. * Side effects do not allow the implicit use of -print. Specifically, the use of -prune turns off the implicit use of -print. Look at this line in find.c: else if (!no_side_effects (predicates->pred_next)) side_effects really means: predicate which produces output, according to find.c, at least it does some of the time. Two predicates, side_effects, and produce_output * Supply example for time range commands for find. --//-- This is used by Emacs' spell checker ispell.el: LocalWords: ansi knr strftime xargs updatedb sh fnmatch hin strcpy LocalWords: lib getstr getline frcode bigram texi depcomp automake LocalWords: strncasecmp strcasecmp LIBOBJS FUNC findutils Solaris LocalWords: LIBC TOLOWER TOUPPER tolower isupper PRUNEFS LocalWords: nfs proc Debian cron LocalWords: Haible BeOS Crackerjack