[BusyBox 0000866]: [PATCH] find returns 0 when no file is matched

[Bernhard Fischer]

Hi,

Any find guru, should this be closed?

PS: Too lazy to try to find a standard which may mandate the proper
behaviour for the belowmentioned case.
cheers,

On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 10:43:40AM -0700, bugs at busybox.net wrote:
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>A NOTE has been added to this issue. 
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>http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=866 
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>Reported By:                asierllano
>Assigned To:                BusyBox
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>Project:                    BusyBox
>Issue ID:                   866
>Category:                   Standards Compliance
>Reproducibility:            always
>Severity:                   minor
>Priority:                   normal
>Status:                     assigned
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>Date Submitted:             05-04-2006 23:32 PDT
>Last Modified:              06-11-2006 10:43 PDT
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>Summary:                    [PATCH] find returns 0 when no file is matched
>Description: 
>Execute:
>find -name idontexist
>echo $?
>
>You will see that in busybox it returns 0, but in findutils it returns 1.
>
>I've provided a simple patch that solves it easily.
>This bug happens in the SVN snapshot, but I haven't tried to apply this
>patch to it, but it may apply directly or near-directly.
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> bernhardf - 06-11-06 10:43  
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>While i can see why returning a failure-code in this case would make sense,
>GNU find does return success too. 
>
>Issue History 
>Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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>05-04-06 23:32  asierllano     New Issue                                    
>05-04-06 23:32  asierllano     Status                   new => assigned     
>05-04-06 23:32  asierllano     Assigned To               => BusyBox         
>05-04-06 23:32  asierllano     File Added: busybox-find-nomatch.patch           
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>06-11-06 10:43  bernhardf      Note Added: 0001416                          
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