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A new release of findutils, 4.3.5-1, is available for use, replacing
4.3.4-1. 4.2.27-1 remains the previous version.
NEWS:
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This is a new upstream release, fixing several issues as documented below.
The release is marked beta upstream, but the 4.3 series has, in general,
been enough of an improvement over the stable 4.2 series that I have
focused on 4.3 releases as the primary cygwin release.
Although the news file mentions the partial addition of birthtime support,
it requires rebuilding from source against a cygwin snapshot to take
advantage of this feature, since birthtime will not be supported
officially until cygwin 1.7.0.
See also /usr/share/doc/findutils-4.3.5/.
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.
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Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin findutils maintainer
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* Major changes in release 4.3.5
** Functional changes
Updatedb can now support he generation of file name databases which
are compatible with slocate. For some time, GNU locate has been able
to read these.
The /proc filesystem is excluded from the locate database (by
default; change PRUNEPATHS to modify this behaviour).
** Bug Fixes
#19806: The -samefile predicate might get fooled by inode reuse. We
now hold open a file descriptor on the reference file to prevent this.
#19768: Better detection of corrupted old-style locate databases
(e.g. if the database is too short to include a complete bigram
table).
#19766: The frcode and code programs now detect write errors more
reliably.
#19371: Fix compilation failure on systems which #define open to
open64 (and similarly with the close system call). This fixes
Savannah bug #19371, affecting AIX 5.3.
#19658: When cross-compiling, "make clean" no longer deletes the
generated file doc/regexprops.texi, because there is no way to
regenerate it.
#19391: When xargs knows that the system's actual exec limit is larger
than the compiled-in ARG_MAX, use the system's limit without
generating an assertion failure.
#18203: A duplicate report of bug #17478.
#17478: Error messages from find can garble the console.
#16378: Assertion failure if stat() returns 00000 as the mode
of a file. This apparently can happen occasionally with broken NFS
servers.
#11668: FreeBSD extensions for time specification are now
implemented. In fact, these were included in findutils-4.3.3. The
change was listed as a functional change (whcih it is) and this bug
report was not mentioned.
** Documentation Fixes
The locatedb.5 manpage now documents the (default) LOCATE02 format
more clearly, and also documents the slocate database format.
The maximum and default values applying to the -s option of xargs are
now documented more clearly in the manual page.
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