Re: Several changes made to fts.c in Gnulib

[James Youngman]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Kamil Dudka wrote:
>>
>> Any chance to make the (still documented) -noleaf option of find work
>> again?
>
>
> I'm inclined to agree with Pádraig, in thinking that fts should Just Work
> without the complexity of an extra option to disable an optimization that is
> supposed to work.

Historically the main advantage of -noleaf was allowing easy diagnosis
of a file system bug.   This is needed much less frequently now that
leaf optimisation is automatically turned off for /proc on Linux.

> As things stand, 'find' can disable leaf optimization by using a bigger
> hammer, namely, turn off FTS_CURDIR. However, my suggestion is to deprecate
> the -noleaf option while you're at it.

I don't see FTS_CURDIR in fts_.h.   Is that the right enum name?


James.