findutils-4.10.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Xi Ruoyao]

GNU findutils NEWS - User visible changes. -*- outline -*- (allout)

• Noteworthy changes in release 4.10.0 (2024-06-01) [stable]

Bug Fixes

Find now defaults to optimization level 1 rather than 2 and the cost-based optimizer will only run at level 2 and above. This should prevent changes of operation order which result in user-visible differences in behaviour. #58427

If the -P option to xargs is not used, xargs will not change the way in which the SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 signals are handled. This means that they will cause the program to terminate if the signals were not ignored in the process which started xargs. This also means that xargs does not use parallel execution at all. If you start xargs with '-P 1', then xargs will not be killed by these signals, and they instead change the degree of parallelism. This change improves xargs' POSIX compliance.

'xargs -P' now waits for all its child processes to complete before exiting, even if one of them exits with status 255. #64451

If the -P option of xargs is in use, reads on standard input which are interrupted by a signal are re-started. #64442

'find -name /' no longer outputs a warning, because that is a valid pattern to match the root directory "/". Previously, a diagnostic falsely claimed that this pattern would not match anything. #62227

'find -gid' (without the mandatory argument) now outputs a correct error diagnostic. Previously it output: "find: invalid argument -gid' to -gid'". The error diagnostic for non-numeric arguments has been improved as well. Likewise for -inum, -links and -uid.

'find -user' and 'find -group' now allow to specify larger UIDs/GIDs. Previously, that was limited to INT_MAX, although the types uid_t and gid_t are larger on many systems, including x86_64 GNU/Linux. #64900

'find -xtype l' no longer fails on symbolic links that point to themselves. These are treated similarly to broken links. #51926

Improvements

The find predicates -used, -amin, -cmin, -mmin, -atime, -ctime, and -mtime now properly diagnose a not-a-number argument. Previously, find dumped core via an assertion. #64717

Changes to the build process

findutils now builds again on systems with musl-libc. This requires gettext-0.19.8.

findutils programs no longer fail for timestamps past the year 2038 on obsolete configurations with 32-bit signed time_t, because the build procedure now rejects these configurations. On systems without any year2038 support configure with --disable-year2038.

Documentation Changes

When generating the Texinfo manual, makeinfo is invoked with the --no-split option for all output formats now; this avoids files like find.info-[12].

The xargs documentation now describes the double dash "--" option delimiter.

The xargs examples in the Texinfo manual now use the -L and --replace options instead of the deprecated -l and -i options. #64480

The TexInfo manual now uses upper-case 'B' as birthtime for the -newerXY comparison consistently. #65378

Translations

Updated the following translations: Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Luganda, Malay, Norwegian Bokmaal, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit 58180415d.