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bug #54731: On find man page mention what "sometimes" means

Submitter:  jidanni
Submitted:  Wed 26 Sep 2018 02:37:59 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  documentation Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Wont Fix
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  jay
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  Closed
Release:  4.6.0 Fixed Release:  None
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Wed 26 Sep 2018 09:41:41 PM UTC, comment #2: 

OK but maybe leave one example, even if just on this bug report, so we know what this is talking about.

jidanni
Wed 26 Sep 2018 04:01:36 PM UTC, comment #1: 

There is a reasonably large number of situations in which this can happen.

The benefit to the user in enumerating them in the documentation is, IMHO, outweighed by
(a) the maintenance burden in keeping such a list up-to-date
(b) the downsides for the user of this list being sometimes out-of-date (and reference material which is out-of-date is unuseful to the user if it's not credible).

You can seem some of the cases where this happens as the call sites of the functions "die" and "fatal_target_file_error".

IOW, I don't think this should be documented.

James Youngman <jay>
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Wed 26 Sep 2018 02:37:59 AM UTC, original submission:  

find man page says:

              If any invocation returns a non-zero value as exit status,
              then find returns a non-zero exit status. If find
              encounters an error, this can sometimes cause an immediate
              exit, so some pending commands may not be run at all. This
              variant of -exec always returns true.


OK but do elaborate there what the "sometimes" means.

jidanni

 

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