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Summary: POSIXLY_CORRECT should imply -nowarn
Project: findutils
Submitted by: ericb
Submitted on: Tuesday 09/11/2007 at 11:21
Category: find
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Wrong result
Status: Confirmed
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name: Eric Blake
Originator Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: 4.3.8
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
According to the Austin Group:
https://www.opengroup.org/sophocles/show_mail.tpl?CALLER=index.tpl&source=L&listname=austin-group-l&id=10994
find is in violation of POSIX if it prints any warning message without
affecting exit status.
Either we should make POSIXLY_CORRECT imply -nowarn (since the
POSIX-conformant user can't use the extension -nowarn themselves), or we
should affect the exit status any time a warning is printed. I very much
prefer the former (ie. printing warnings with an exit status of 0 is a very
useful behavior, albeit non-POSIX, so it would be much nicer to just state
that when the user has requested POSIX behavior, they don't want warnings).
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