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Re: [patch] cygport, find ... -exec


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According to Charles Wilson on 11/15/2006 12:37 AM:
> Usually, the 'find ... -exec cmd ...' idiom makes a lot of sense -- it's
> faster, one fewer forks (maybe MANY fewer), etc.
> 
> However, you sometimes run into troubles with extremely long filelists.
> As I did with ncurses (1183 files in the build/ directory) -- and I got
> a 'too many files' error from touch resulting from this command in
> __prepinstalldirs:
> 
> find ${B} -type f -exec touch -t $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S) '{}' +;

Which version of find?  I know there was an upstream bug report to
findutils that 'find -exec {} +' was not sharing the same logic as xargs
in 4.3.0, but that was supposed to be fixed in find 4.3.1.  If it is a
legitimate find bug, I'd like to get it fixed upstream.

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin findutils maintainer
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