Re: Why does -inum require stat(2)?

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2008-09-23 James Youngman <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:11 PM, George Spelvin <address@hidden> wrote:
> > "James Youngman" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Based on what you write I would assume that this is true for both the
> >> find and the oldfind executables built in all even vaguely-recent
> >> findutils releases.
> >
> > Er... I'm not familiar with the oldfind executable.  I'm using the
> > Debian-compiled amd64 4.4.0 binary.

> Ah.   If you build from source, you get two executables.   One is
> built with fts, the other without.   Their names are goverened by the
> --with-fts configure option:

> If ---with-fts: "find" has fts and the other binary is "oldfind"
> If --without-fts: "find" lacks fts and the other binary is "ftsfind".
[...]

FWIW the Debian package of findutils ships both binaries.
cu andreas