bug#81482: 31.0.91; test failures because 'find -path' does not work on Solaris 10

Ping!  How should we make further progress here?

> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:30:36 +0300
> Cc: [email protected]
> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email protected]>
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> On 27/07/2026 03:56, Paul Eggert wrote:
> >>> Solaris 11 does not have the problem with "find ... -path".
> 
> More concretely, it seems 11.4 supports -path but 11.2 does not yet. At 
> least it's what the man pages imply:
> 
> https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36870/find-1.html (missing)
> https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E88353_01/html/E37839/grep-1.html (present)
> 
> >> Is Solaris 11 similarly okay with 'grep -E' and 'xargs -0'?
> > 
> > No for 'grep -E', yes for 'xargs -0'. That is, 'grep -E' is the only 
> > problem on Solaris 11. (I checked Solaris 11.4.)
> > 
> > 'grep -E' does work on Solaris clones like Illumos.
> 
> Huh, I guess that's the most surprising part. But it means that just the 
> "egrep" fallback will make things work in Solaris 11 or later - worth 
> some effort.
>