find / without traversing /proc

Greywolf greywolf@starwolf.com
Sun Apr 30 21:37:00 GMT 2017


-xdev was never a GNU extension; it was in Posix 1 (1990).

On 2017-04-28 17:32, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Eric Blake!
>
>> On 04/27/2017 08:11 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>
>>>
>>>> Doesn't the -xdev switch help with this?
>>>
>>> Just keep in mind that -xdev is an extension and different platform may use a
>>> different way to indicate that find should stick to the current device.
>
>> Huh?  find -xdev is specified by POSIX, so it's portable:
>
>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/find.html
>
> 2016 edition. It's new. But pleasant.
> Last time I checked it was labeled as GNU extension.
>
>

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