[4427] in Athena Bugs
Re: 6.4R: find
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Tue Mar 6 14:06:06 1990
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 90 14:05:35 -0500
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From: Richard Basch <probe@MIT.EDU>
(Excerpt from response 2, changes[1308]):
This is of course, different from find everywhere else and will cause
other operations that used to depend on the directories being
processed first to lose. What about a find that is used to change
permissions?
How does reversing the processing order affect this operation? What
operations are affected by this? (Believe me, I gave the order of
processing a great deal of consideration and was skeptical until I could
think of nothing that prevents this from being used).
Yes, this is different from BSD's order of processing, but there are
some OS's that have "find" work in this mode of processing directories
last (or so I have been told). If it is rejected solely on being
"different", then, we should also not have "-rm", "-rmf", or "-ctime",
etc. (if -rm is to be included, it should be made to work! - and it was
asked to be put into the release by management).
-Richard
