Re: Bug#633505: manpages-dev: fts(3) has inaccurate description of physical vs. logical

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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Simon Paillard <spaillard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> forwarded 633505 linux-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> thanks
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:30:43PM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
>> Package: manpages-dev
>> Version: 3.27-1
>> Severity: minor
>>
>>
>> The descriptions of the effects of FTS_LOGICAL and FTS_PHISICAL in the
>> subsection entitled fts_open() are correct.  But the DESCRIPTION
>> section is incorrect.  It says:
>>
>>   It is possible to walk the hierarchy "logically" (ignoring symbolic
>>   links) or physically (visiting symbolic links), order the walk of
>>   the hierarchy or prune and/or revisit portions of the hierarchy.
>>
>> This is not accurate.  Symbolic links are never ignored.  Here is a
>> clearer description:
>>
>>   It is possible to walk the hierarchy "logically" (visiting the files
>>   that symbolic links point to, like "find -L") or "physically"
>>   (visiting the symbolic links themselves instead, like "find -P") ,
>>   order the walk of the hierarchy or prune and/or revisit portions of
>>   the hierarchy.
>
> Thanks for the report James, confirmed by test, patch a bit modified and
> forwarded upstream.

Thanks Simon. Applied for 3.44.



-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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