Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote: >> There are quite a lot of things that find can, but tar cannot do.
>Absolutely! But I don't see why this one in particular is one of them. >In the longer run, Joerg's suggestion of using libfind, or something like >that, may be a better one -- then 'tar' could do anything that 'find' can >do, without further ado. However, libfind (or whatever) would have to be >audited for security holes.... What "holes" do you expect? Besides that libfind has been audited, libfind is in use since 6 years in OSS projects and nobody did so far complain. Note that I wrote "sfind" in 2004 in less than a week, but it took more than 2 years to convert it into a clean library that is reentrant and has no memory leakage. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
