docs/40196: man find does not describe -follow

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

The following reply was made to PR docs/40196; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: des at des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To: peter.lai at uconn.edu
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, chu at gpi.ru,
	freebsd-doc at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/40196: man find does not describe -follow
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:05:59 +0100

 "Peter C. Lai" <sirmoo at cowbert.2y.net> writes:
 > find(1) has the -follow option historically on SysV and Solaris.
 > [...]
 > Whereas I'm not sure whether or not FreeBSD's find(1) supports the
 > infinite loop detection feature, the Solaris description appears to
 > be the most accurate.
 
 Have you even read the man page?  Our find(1) uses fts(3) and supports
 the usual -H, -L and -P options.  The -follow option (and one reason
 why we don't support it) is even mentioned in the STANDARDS section,
 though -H is misspelled as -h in that paragraph.
 
 DES
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 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des at des.no