Fwd: findutils-4.2.28 patch

[James Youngman]

I had put the wrong mailing list name in the CC: box

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jeff Chua <address@hidden>
Date: Oct 10, 2006 2:49 PM
Subject: RE: findutils-4.2.28 patch
To: James Youngman <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden


> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of James Youngman

> Perhaps it's more obvious to the user what's going on if we
> ntroduce a new test, "-older"  which succeeds if the file
> being tested is older than the named file.  Then for the use
> case you are talking about " !
> -older foo" would do the job.  What do you think?

That can do. As long as the feature is there, it'll work for me.

> In any case, this reminds me that, as far as I recall, I
> still have not enhanced find to take advantage of the
> nanosecond-reslution timestamps that a number of operating
> systems and filesystems provide these days (and which have in
> fact been available for years).

That would be nice as well.

> Thanks for your help!

Hey, anything I can do to make gnu works better, I'll try. Just that I
may not know enough.

Thanks,
Jeff.