Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- 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/
