Since then we have living with a GPL'ed find(1) due to grabbing getdate.y
from src/contrib/cvs and its user of the GPL'ed xtime.h. I don't even want
to think about how this could have affected people using our source base.
Would it have been too much trouble to do then what I did now?
Copied getdate.y (public domain) to usr.bin/find and change to use
standard system headers. find(1) now compiles simply with out having
to go to extra effort to do so.
Pointed hat to: phk
Build fixed on: gcc 3.1 using platforms
-anewer
-cnewer
-mnewer
-okdir
-newer[acm][acmt]
With it, you can form queries like
find . -newerct '1 minute ago' -print
As an extra bonus, the program is ANSI-fied - the original version
relies on some obscure features of K&R C.
(This PR was submitted in 1999, and the submittor has kept the patch
updated ever since, hats off for him guys, and how about you close a PR ??)
PR: 9374
Submitted by: Martin Birgmeier <Martin.Birgmeier@aon.at>
behave as in GNU find (and of course as described in the manual page
diff included). I think these options would be useful for some people.
Some missing $FreeBSD$ tags are also added.
The patch was slightly modified (send-pr mangling of TABS).
PR: bin/18941
Submitted by: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
interface, and statically link them to the programs using them.
These functions, upon reflection and discussion, are too generically
named for a library interface with such specific functionality.
Also the api that they use, whilst ok for private use, isn't good
enough for a libc function.
Additionally there were complications with the build/install-world
process. It depends heavily upon xinstall, which got broken by
the change in api, and caused bootstrap problems and general mayhem.
There is work in progress to address future problems that may be
caused by changes in install-chain tools, and better names for
{g|s}etflags can be derived when some future program requires them.
For now the code has been left in src/lib/libc/gen (it started off
in src/bin/ls).
It's important to provide library functions for manipulating file
flag strings if we ever want this interface to be adopted outside
of the source tree, but now isn't necessarily the right moment
with 4.0-release just around the corner.
Approved: jkh
string to u_long and back using two functions, flags_to_string and
string_to_flags, which co-existed with 'ls'. As time has progressed
more and more other tools have used these private functions to
manipulate the file flags.
Recently I moved these functions from /usr/src/bin/ls to libutil,
but after some discussion with bde it's been decided that they
really ought to go in libc.
There are two already existing libc functions for manipulating file
modes: setmode and getmode. In keeping with these flags_to_string
has been renamed getflags and string_to_flags to setflags.
The manual page could probably be improved upon ;)
I added $FreeBSD$ whicle I was here. The patch wasn't usable anymore
due to its age so I adapted it.
PR: bin/3648
Submitted by: Martin Birgmeier <mbirg@austria.ds.philips.com>
