Subject: Re: bug#48471: 28.0.50; Incorrect handling of `project-ignores' on macOS (BSD find?) if project root is a directory name

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 01:29:37 +0300

On 10.10.2021 01:07, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 10/9/21 2:53 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
>> Any chance we could say the same about '-printf'?
> 
> Unfortunately not. find -printf is not standardized by POSIX and is 
> missing on (for example) Solaris 10.

I see, thank you.

> Perhaps you could do a quick test of whether 'find -printf' works, and 
> use -printf only if it works.

Yeah, that's an option.

But a meaningful test whether 'find' works seems a bit less obvious to 
design than the existing tests in grep.el I could otherwise adapt.

Something to consider for future developments in Emacs 29 anyway.