bug#48471: 28.0.50; Incorrect handling of `project-ignores' on macOS (BSD find?) if project root is a directory name

[Paul Eggert]

On 10/9/21 2:53 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Hi Philipp,
>
> On 30.05.2021 19:27, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > On 5/29/21 11:31 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > It's in Posix, but I'm not sure how portable it is in practice.  Paul,
> > > Andreas, do you happen to know?
> >
> > Although 'find -H' was not in 7th edition Unix, it was added 
> > reasonably soon after that and it should be in all currently-supported 
> > POSIXish platforms.
>
> Any chance we could say the same about '-printf'?
>
> It would help speed up our default 'project-files' implementation by 
> about 10%.


Unfortunately not. find -printf is not standardized by POSIX and is 
missing on (for example) Solaris 10.

Perhaps you could do a quick test of whether 'find -printf' works, and 
use -printf only if it works.