[PATCH] tests/stat: use find -follow for busybox compatibility

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Wed May 8 15:48:26 UTC 2013


On Wednesday 08 May 2013 05:00:31 James Hogan wrote:
> Use the -follow argument to find instead of -L for compatibility with
> busybox which doesn't have the -L option.

so fix busybox.  the -L option is part of POSIX and assuming at least a POSIX 
base is perfectly fair game.  anything else is a nightmare of random 
unmaintainable changes.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/find.html
-mike
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