Joerg Schilling wrote: > Shi-Ying Irene Huang <sh162551 at sac.sfbay.sun.com> wrote: > >> GNU find is faster than Solaris find and has more functions, it was a >> cleanroom implementation. And even has xargs funcionality built inside, >> but xargs is also kept separate for convenience. >> > > Why not use sfind if you like a faster and more powerful implementation? > sfind is based on libfind which is also used by mkisofs and star.
Because that is not what *this* project team is proposing to do. If some other project team wants to integrate sfind they are free to do so. Also if some other project team wants to integrate either sfind or GNU findutils as a way to replace the existing OpenSolaris find they are also free to run a case to do so. That is not *this* case though. > Do you plan to fix the "defective by default" behavior of GNU find? > GNU find ignores POSIX directory semantics and for this reason will not > find all files in case that the filesystem does not implement a hardlink > count == 2 + num-sub-dirs for directories. This bug e.g. appears with most > CDs/DVDs, where GNU find typically only finds entries in the root dir. GNU find should be integrated as it is upstream except for any changes necessary to make it compile and run on Solaris. If there are generic bugs/issues like the one you described it isn't upto *this* project team to fix them. That is for the upstream community to fix. -- Darren J Moffat
