X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-Id: Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:01:36 -0700 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-4.3.2-1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------000604020701000404080403" Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List X-Mailer: Perl5 Mail::Internet v1.74 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com --------------000604020701000404080403 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of findutils, 4.3.2-1, is available, replacing 4.3.1-3 as current. NEWS: ===== This is a new upstream release. A summary of upstream patches is listed below. Although this release is still marked beta upstream, it has proven to be more reliable than the stable 4.2.x series on cygwin. As a beta release, it adds new optimization features that might be withdrawn depending on feedback received. If you encounter a bug with /bin/find, you should also try /bin/oldfind to see if the bug is dependent on the different file traversal algorithm. Upstream news since is available in /usr/share/doc/findutils-4.3.2/. 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. - -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin findutils maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=YOURDOMAIN DOT COM AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFblef84KuGfSFAYARAtD/AKC+IbeYhmHJ2iYIioDbh8Cg4Rb3gQCffgK4 KSaE1srBGZWWCHnizSoZcJc= =v3oV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------000604020701000404080403 Content-Type: text/plain; name="NEWS.short" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="NEWS.short" * Major changes in release 4.3.2 ** Bug Fixes #18222: find -printf '%H %P' once again prints the right result if more than one start point was given on the command line. #17782: find -execdir now correctly puts the prefix "./" before the expansion of "{}" rather than at the start of the argument it appears in. Please note that if you use the -exec or -execdir actions with a shell, then you may be vulnerable to shell code injection attacks, so don't do that. It's not a security defect in find - you should not be passing untrusted data (such as file names chosen by other people) to the shell. #17490: find -regex generated a segfault in findutils-4.3.1, but this is fixed in findutils-4.3.2. #17477: find -printf '%' (that is, where the format has a trailing %) now generates an error message. #17372: The fts-based find executable (the default configuration uses fts) is now much faster when -maxdepth is used on filesystems with high fanouts. #15531: The -prune action now behaves correctly when applied to a file. ** Functional changes The slocate database format is now supported. Preliminary changes intended to eventually allow setuid operation of locate have also been made. For the moment, please don't install GNU locate as a set-user-ID program (except for testing purposes; if you do so, please make sure that untrusted users cannot execute the set-user-ID locate program). Use of an slocate database which was built with a nonzero security mode (at the moment, GNU updatedb will not do this) forces locate's "-e" option to be turned on, which has an effect on the "-S" option which is probably surprising for most users. ** Documentation Fixes The global effect of options (other than -daystart and -follow) is now explained more clearly in the manual page. Savannah bug #15360. --------------000604020701000404080403 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ --------------000604020701000404080403--