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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:12:53 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: findutils vs. /proc/registry
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On Aug 12 06:55, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Corinna Vinschen on 8/12/2005 2:01 AM:
> > The Cygwin version is from FreeBSD, which in turn is from OpenBSD.
> > 
> > I saw that coreutils also does not even ask for fts(3) being available
> > on the target system, but du(1) is easily patchable, so I used that for
> > testing our new fts().
> 
> That's because coreutils, CVS tar, findutils, and other GNU projects that
> use gnulib all inherit gnulib's declaration that no system has yet
> provided an fts(3) with enough features.  

Given that fts() is a BSD invention anyway, that sounds somewhat snotty
to me.  Unfortunately fts() isn't in SUSv3.


Corinna

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