Re: [Findutils-patches] [PATCH] -delete requires -depth

[Eric Blake]

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According to James Youngman on 8/23/2007 4:11 AM:
> I am proposing to make this change in findutils-4.3.9.    Any objections?

Bruno raised the objection on savannah that this approach is not
backwards-compatible (ie. scripts that used just -delete will now fail to
do anything).  However, I tend to agree with the idea that if we are
changing the behavior of -delete, an explicit error that explains what is
missing is important.  Bruno also had the idea of letting -delete operate
without -depth, by letting -delete swap the traversal of that subtree to
depth-first while the rest of the traversal is breadth-first prior to
encountering the -delete action.  I'm not sure that is possible, since my
understanding of fts() is that the traversal pattern is picked up front.

In other words, let's think this over a bit more before checking anything in.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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