From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-25 10597c9: Don't use 'find-program' Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 21:25:55 +0300 Message-ID: <83fuuiai4s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160411164301.22548.38008@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83potpbwbb.fsf@gnu.org> <83h9f1bcvd.fsf@gnu.org> <83poto9lu0.fsf@gnu.org> <5714650E.2070008@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1461003986 23603 80.91.229.3 (18 Apr 2016 18:26:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 18:26:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 18 20:26:20 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1asDsJ-0008BP-Rp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2016 20:26:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43301 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1asDsF-0002yL-LI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:26:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54836) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1asDsC-0002vS-Gt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:26:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1asDs8-0000PE-Gk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:26:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53210) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1asDs8-0000Ow-Cy; Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:26:08 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1870 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1asDs7-0007Of-F3; Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:26:07 -0400 In-reply-to: <5714650E.2070008@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sun, 17 Apr 2016 21:39:42 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:203058 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 21:39:42 -0700 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > you might have 2 versions of 'find' (under > > different names), one that is good at invoking programs via -exec, the > > other that supports the -print0 action. > > Is this sort of problem common under MS-Windows? Yes. Find in particular has all kinds of semi-broken ports lying around. It's why I needed to do my own port years ago: the best one in existence then was abysmally slow. My port is much faster, and generally doesn't lose features, but even it has deficiencies: for example, the inode is always zero, so -inum doesn't work. > It doesn't sound plausible in any GNUish or POSIXish system, where > any find that supports -print0 should also support -exec. Like I said: I don't expect this customization to be of any use for GNU/Linux users.