Re: find(1) and group/user handling

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 05:19:54PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 > On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 08:10:27PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
 >  > In my opinion, the -user and -group primaries should work strictly with
 >  > _names_, and _never_ fallback to {u,g}id values;  we could easily add
 >  > new primaries -uid and -gid to search for the numeric values.  However,
 >  > this would make find(1) incompatible with existing versions.
 >  > 
 >  > Comments?
 > 
 > I agree; ambiguating what things do is usually not a good idea,
 > because eventually the result is that it does something you don't
 > expect and then you have to figure out both what it thought you meant
 > and what it did.
 > [...]

For now though I've fixed it so -user and -group at least behave the
same way.

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David A. Holland
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