Hi everyone,
I am new to this list, so I am sorry if I am asking something that was
already asked.
I am using find on Ubuntu 15.04 and hit a bug. It is related to -fstype -
sometimes nfs or cifs is identified as ext4.
It appears the bug is already fixed in the current development branch 4.5.
I think this is the fix:
Take the last matching entry in /etc/mtab, not the first.
* find/fstype.c (file_system_type_uncached): Instead of taking the
first match, take the last match. This deals better with mtab
implementations in which there can be duplicate entries, for
example Linux-based systems in which /etc/mtab is a symlink to
/proc/mounts) can have duplicate entries in the file system list.
This happens most frequently for /.
* NEWS: Mention this change.
author James Youngman <j...@gnu.org> 2011-06-01 10:11:20 (GMT)
committer James Youngman <j...@gnu.org> 2011-06-03 23:17:58 (GMT)
commit 1d37a22a7f1d3b08c086430b96071c293c02e6d0 (patch)
(side-by-side diff)
tree 176cda8518b5d3f41752ab00fda4bf21ff3fef98
parent f3d4ac9bb470775df8ceb371b689825a69d8a7fb (diff)
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/?id=1d37a22a7f1d3b08c086430b96071c293c02e6d0
But all the releases on the 4.5 branch comes with this warning:
"This is a "development" release of findutils."
At the same time the latest release on the 4.4 branch is 6 years old:
From: James Youngman
Subject: GNU findutils version 4.4.2 is released
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:47:38 +0100
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2009-06/msg00001.html
I am wondering what would be the best approach to have that bug fixed in
the find used by Ubuntu.
I just asked on the Ubuntu mailing list for the findutils package and was
told that generally Ubuntu takes stable releases.
So now I am wondering what is the findutils policy on releases and bugfixes.
If the bug fix is backported to 4.4 would it be possible to have a new 4.4
release?
Or 4.5 is actually stable enough and Ubuntu should just switch to it?
Thank you,
Ilya Bobyr
