Re: [Findutils-patches] [PATCH] POSIX will soon standarise -path; un-deprecate it.

[James Youngman]

On 8/20/07, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> It may be worth following this sentence with one more, explaining why we
> provide -wholename as a synonym for -path (because -path, although chosen
> by POSIX, has the wrong connotation of being a list of directories, rather
> than a single file name including directories).

I fear this may be confusing, since "wholename" is problematic; the
names concerned are not the whole name of the file, either.

I created a bug to reming myself to add in the extra documentation for -path.

> Not introduced by this bug, but those are some long lines.  Is it worth
> reformatting a bit to get 80-column lines?

On the whole I don't go overboard with that, but I have reduced the
length of the longest examples where this seemed to help readability.


> Missing a NEWS entry.  Otherwise, I think this is ready for applying to
> 4.3.x, after addressing the above points.

Thanks; done.