Findutils 4.2.7 is released on alpha.gnu.org

[James Youngman]

I'm happy to announce the availability of findutils version 4.2.7 at
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/findutils. 

The findutils 4.2.7 release includes some functional changes and
documentation improvements, but notably it should work better on
Solaris in the presence of automount than findutils-4.2.6 did.

The NEWS file for this release says :-

* Major changes in release 4.2.7
**  Functionality Changes
*** xargs can now read a list of arguments from a named file, allowing 
    the invoked program to use the same stdin as xargs started with
    (for example ``xargs --arg-file=todo emacs'').
**  Documentation improvements
*** The Texinfo manual now has an extra chapter, "Error Messages".  Most 
    error messages are self-explanatory, but some of the ones which
    are not are explained in this chapter.
**  Bug Fixes
*** Avoid trying to link against -lsun on UNICOS, which doesn't need it or 
    have it.
*** Bugfix to the findutils 4.2.6 automount handling (which hadn't been enabled
    on Solaris).
*** Reenabled internationalisation support (which had been accidentally 
    disabled in findutils-4.2.5).

I'd be very grateful if people suffering from the "[directory-name]
changed during execution of find" error and anybody using automount
could check this.

As I understand things, the symptom of the error is that "find
/net/blah -name xyzzy -print" will issue an error message and exit
instead of running to completion if /net/blah is an automount mount
point which isn't currently mounted when you run "find".

Also, if anybody is using Ultrix, I'd be grateful for a general update
on how well findutils-4.2.6 works on that platform.   Thanks.

Regards,
James Youngman


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