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From: Jim Meyering <jim AT meyering DOT net>
To: bug-coreutils AT gnu DOT org
Cc: Luke Kendall <luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Path confusion
In-Reply-To: <424D4BA9.2010507@byu.net> (Eric Blake's message of "Fri, 01 Apr 2005 06:24:57 -0700")
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Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 23:31:44 +0200
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Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net> wrote:
> How about it - does it make sense to add an --xdev option to all of the
> recursive descent tools (chown, chmod, ls, ...) to force the recursion to
> stop at mount points, or is find/xargs the only supported idiom for this?

It's seductive, but I don't think we can justify it.
You've probably noticed that du has the --one-file-system (-x) option.
That's justifiable because du couldn't do parts of its job if invoked
through e.g., find+xargs.
On the other hand, programs like chown, chmod, chgrp work just fine
when invoked through find+xargs.

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