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[Findutils-patches] [PATCH] Fix savannah bug #23070 (find.1 needs update


From: James Youngman
Subject: [Findutils-patches] [PATCH] Fix savannah bug #23070 (find.1 needs update for -perm /000)
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:39:22 +0100

2008-06-22  James Youngman  <address@hidden>

        Fix savannah bug #23070 (find.1 needs update for -perm /000)
        * find/find.1 (-perm /mode): The all-bits-zero behaviour has
        already changed.
        * NEWS: Mention the fix.

Signed-off-by: James Youngman <address@hidden>
---

 (Targeted to both 4.4.x and 4.5.x)

 NEWS        |    4 ++++
 find/find.1 |    5 ++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 270c56c..fde48ca 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ versions of the AIX C compiler), find's regular expression
 implementation fails to support case-insensitive regular expression
 matching, causing -iregex to behave like -regex.  This is now fixed.
 
+#23070: Corrected manpage description of find -perm /000 (the change
+was already made but the manpage indicated the change would happen
+"soon"). 
+
 ** Functional Enhancements to find
 
 If the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set, the system's
diff --git a/find/find.1 b/find/find.1
index dd3b028..d526480 100644
--- a/find/find.1
+++ b/find/find.1
@@ -779,9 +779,8 @@ you use a symbolic mode.  See the
 .B EXAMPLES 
 section for some illustrative examples.  If no permission bits in 
 .I mode
-are set, this test currently matches no files.  However, it will soon
-be changed to match any file (the idea is to be more consistent with
-the behaviour of 
+are set, this test matches any file (the idea here is to be consistent
+with the behaviour of  
 .B \-perm 
 .BR \-000 ).
 
-- 
1.5.5.4





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