I am pleased to announce the release of version 4.2.19 of GNU findutils. This is another bugfix release; the list of bugs fixes appears below.
GNU findutils is a set of software tools for finding files that match certain criteria and for performing various operations on them. Findutils includes the programs "find", "xargs" and "locate". This is a bugfix release of the software, and can be downloaded from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/findutils. The "stable" releases of findutils on the other hand can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/findutils. The ftp.gnu.org site is very busy, so you may find it more convenient to download findutils from one of the mirror sites listed at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html. More information about findutils is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/. Bugs in GNU findutils should be reported to the findutils bug tracker at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils. Reporting bugs via the web interface will ensure that you are automatically informed when the bug has been fixed. General discussion of findutils takes place on the bug-findutils mailing list. To join the 'bug-findutils' mailing list, send email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To verify the GPG signature of the release, you will need the public key of the findutils maintainer, James Youngman. You can download this from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg. Alternatively, you could query a PGP keyserver, but you will need to use one that can cope with subkeys containing photos. Many older key servers cannot do this. I use subkeys.pgp.net. I think that one works. See also the "Downloading" section of http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/. * Major changes in release 4.2.19 ** Bug Fixes find should now no longer hang on systems which lack the O_NOFOLLOW flag to open(2) and which are clients of an unresponsive NFS server (Savannah bug #12044). We now avoid inappropriately failing for "find -L foo" or "find -H foo" if foo is a symbolic link (Savannah bug #12181). Previously we used to fail with the error message "Too many levels of symbolic links". "find . -false -exec foo {} +" no longer runs an extra instance of foo when find exits (Savannah bug #12230). If the chdir() safety check fails but we can no longer get back to where we started, exit with an explanatory (fatal) error message. This does not happen on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD because the safety check is not needed (the security problem the safety check protects against is prevented in a cleaner way on those systems). "make distclean" no longer deletes regex.c (which "make all" needs). ** Functionality Changes "find -printf "%h\n" will now print "." for files in the current directory. Previously it printed nothing (but there was a bug in the %h implementation anyway). This fixes Savannah bug #12085. Should now build (again) on non-C99-compliant systems. ** Documentation enhancements Fixed some typos and clarified wording in "Working with automounters". ** Internationalization and Localization New Vietnamese message translation. -- James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNU findutils maintainer _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
