Re: find -lname and -ilname implemented



Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

On 2008-02-23 16:48, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


This knee-jerk reaction against gnu find functionality baffles me.
The changes are trivial and make FreeBSD more compatible. It is such
an obvious no-brainer that I frankly didn't expect anybody to bat an
eye.



So should I expect similar knee-jerk reactions to the just committed
`finger compatibility' option to implement du -l for hardlinks?


FWIW, a vote in favour of compatibility shims.

It's just a shame that this won't cut both ways - it would be nice, for example, if Linux find would implement proper units to -atime etc. The FreeBSD syntax of -atime +12h is so much nicer than -amin +720. Ah well, can but dream...

--Alex

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