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[Findutils-patches] [PATCH] Fix Savannah bug #21628.
From: |
James Youngman |
Subject: |
[Findutils-patches] [PATCH] Fix Savannah bug #21628. |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:41:34 +0000 |
Correct the warning about the change in behaviour of -perm /000 to
indicate that the change has happened now. This fixes Savannah bug
---
NEWS | 4 ++++
doc/find.texi | 8 +++-----
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3c9709c..b41d9e9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ messages must also result in a nonzero exit status.
options bold instead of italic and making OPTIONS a section header
rather than a subsection.
+#21628: find -perm /000 matches all files rather than none, since
+findutils-4.3.3. The Texinfo documentation is now consistent with the
+manual page on this point.
+
* Major changes in release 4.3.10, 2007-11-13
** Bug Fixes
diff --git a/doc/find.texi b/doc/find.texi
index c54c49c..f4ea166 100644
--- a/doc/find.texi
+++ b/doc/find.texi
@@ -1238,11 +1238,9 @@ As above.
@quotation Warning
If you specify @samp{-perm /000} or @samp{-perm /mode} where the
-symbolic mode @samp{mode} has no bits set, the test currently matches
-no files. This differs from the behaviour of @samp{-perm -000}, which
-matches all files. The behaviour of @samp{-perm /000} will be changed
-to be consistent with the behaviour of @samp{-perm -000}. The change
-will probably be made in early 2006.
+symbolic mode @samp{mode} has no bits set, the test matches all files.
+Versions of GNU @code{find} prior to 4.3.3 matched no files in this
+situation.
@end quotation
@end deffn
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1.5.3.5
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