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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.
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Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin findutils maintainer
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* 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.
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