findutils-4.1.20 -- a minor problem and a suggestion (with patch)

[Peter Breitenlohner]

Hi,

now that findutils seem to be actively maintained again I would like to
suggest the attached patch, which addresses two problems:

1. there is a `gl_XALLOC' in configure.in (probably left over from something
not used anymore?) leading to a spurious error message during configure.

2. a new option `--pathfilter=filter' for a filter to transform pathnames.
If a filesystem is, e.g. mounted on a fileserver as /mnt/foo but accessed on
clients as /bar one could specify
        --pathfilter="sed -e 's%^/mnt/foo%/bar%g'"
when building the database on the server. (Plus an attempt to try an atomic
move, i.e. 'mv -f' from an ancient RedHat? patch.)

I have sent this suggestion a long time ago (in 2000?) but it may have been
lost.

regards
Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden>

findutils-4.1.20-patch
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