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28.0.50; Incorrect handling of `project-ignores' on macOS (BSD find?) if project root is a directory name

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Message #65 received at 48471 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, 48471 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org,
 monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA
Subject: Re: bug#48471: 28.0.50; Incorrect handling of `project-ignores' on
 macOS (BSD find?) if project root is a directory name
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.

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