Resolves: #1325049 - clarify exit status handling

... of -exec cmd {} + in find(1) man page
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Kamil Dudka 2016-04-18 17:53:05 +02:00
parent 300d2a2bec
commit cbc6933054
2 changed files with 52 additions and 1 deletions

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From a8ff1e964b2b8cd0b60362c76bd92795cee6b3c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 22:36:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: clarify exit status handling of -exec command {} +
* find/find.1 (-exec): Explain how exit status is propagated if the
-exec command {} + syntax is used.
(-execdir): Likewise.
Reported at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1325049
Upstream-commit: ae424b959c5e9bd23f9f686cb34653bc4cd1270e
Signed-off-by: Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com>
---
find/find.1 | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/find/find.1 b/find/find.1
index a36a0bc..c4aaf17 100644
--- a/find/find.1
+++ b/find/find.1
@@ -1069,6 +1069,9 @@ command line is built in much the same way that
.B xargs
builds its command lines. Only one instance of `{}' is allowed within
the command. The command is executed in the starting directory. If
+any invocation returns a non-zero value as exit status, then
+.B find
+returns a non-zero exit status. If
.B find
encounters an error, this can sometimes cause an
immediate exit, so some pending commands may not be run
@@ -1104,6 +1107,9 @@ appropriately-named file in a directory in which you will run
The same applies to having entries in
.B $PATH
which are empty or which are not absolute directory names. If
+any invocation returns a non-zero value as exit status, then
+.B find
+returns a non-zero exit status. If
.B find
encounters an error, this can sometimes cause an
immediate exit, so some pending commands may not be run
--
2.5.5

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Summary: The GNU versions of find utilities (find and xargs)
Name: findutils
Version: 4.6.0
Release: 3%{?dist}
Release: 4%{?dist}
Epoch: 1
License: GPLv3+
Group: Applications/File
@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ Patch3: findutils-4.4.2-xautofs.patch
# eliminate compile-time warnings
Patch4: findutils-4.5.13-warnings.patch
# clarify exit status handling of -exec cmd {} + in find(1) man page (#1325049)
Patch5: findutils-4.6.0-man-exec.patch
# implement the -noleaf option of find (#1252549)
Patch8: findutils-4.5.15-leaf-opt.patch
@ -54,6 +57,7 @@ rm -rf locate
%patch1 -p1
%patch3 -p1
%patch4 -p1
%patch5 -p1
%patch8 -p1
# needed because of findutils-4.4.0-no-locate.patch
@ -104,6 +108,9 @@ fi
%{_infodir}/find-maint.info.gz
%changelog
* Mon Apr 18 2016 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 1:4.6.0-4
- clarify exit status handling of -exec cmd {} + in find(1) man page (#1325049)
* Wed Feb 03 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1:4.6.0-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_24_Mass_Rebuild