X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-Id: Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 06:41:16 -0600 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-4.3.5-1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------070907070204050101030600" 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 --------------070907070204050101030600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of findutils, 4.3.5-1, is available for use, replacing 4.3.4-1. 4.2.27-1 remains the previous version. NEWS: ===== 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. - -- 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 iD8DBQFGQG/s84KuGfSFAYARAub4AJ0YQiJy3BChtEcq0H411KyNKRGDpgCfS/4z ys8XwMfOJ/jWLVENWK4EVhA= =+H16 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------070907070204050101030600 Content-Type: text/plain; name="NEWS.short" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="NEWS.short" * 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. --------------070907070204050101030600 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/ --------------070907070204050101030600--