[bug #23070] manpage find.1 needs update for -perm /000

[Andreas Metzler]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23070>

                 Summary: manpage find.1 needs update for -perm /000
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: ametzler
            Submitted on: Samstag 26.04.2008 um 18:18
                Category: documentation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Drake Wilson
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.4.0
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

http://bugs.debian.org/478005

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Package: findutils
Version: 4.4.0-2
Severity: minor

>From find(1), regarding the -perm /mode option: "If no permission bits in
mode are set, this test currently matches no files.  However, it will soon be
changed to match any file (the idea is to be more consistent with the
behaviour of -perm -000)."

That doesn't seem to be true anymore; the change has already been
made.  I believe https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?14748 has
information regarding that.  The man page doesn't seem to have been updated.

(Never mind that this behavior is not, in fact, more consistent from a
mathematical perspective.  But oh well.)

   ---> Drake Wilson
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Texinfo docs are correct, patch for find.1 ist straightforward:

RCS file: /cvsroot/findutils/findutils/find/find.1,v
retrieving revision 1.94
diff -u -r1.94 find.1
--- find/find.1 16 Apr 2008 09:30:28 -0000      1.94
+++ find/find.1 26 Apr 2008 16:12:45 -0000
@@ -779,8 +779,7 @@
 .B EXAMPLES
 section for some illustrative examples.  If no permission bits in
 .I mode
-are set, this test currently matches no files.  However, it will soon
-be changed to match any file (the idea is to be more consistent with
+are set, this test matches any file (the idea is to be more consistent with
 the behaviour of
 .B \-perm
 .BR \-000 ).





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