Follow-up Comment #9, bugs #12044 (project findutils):
>Regarding the OS version check, I think it very unlikely that
>if the Matrix fork of Linux was released, it would be based
>on a version of Linux that is now over 7 yeard old. They'd
>fork a more recent version. Hence the example you give is
>spurious. Findutils would not "stop working". If you take a
>look at the check_nofollow() code I'm sure you'll >understand.
My point was that if someone forked the very latest
version of Linux, findutils would work "less well", since
check_nofollow() would fail. I don't have a fix,
merely pointing out that the current algorithm is
linux-fork-hostile.
Martin
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