Re: Findutils 4.2.6 is released on alpha.gnu.org

[John Levon]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 02:13:24PM +0000, James Youngman wrote:

> I'm happy to announce the availability of findutils version 4.2.6 at
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/findutils. 
> 
> The findutils 4.2.6 release includes just one significant change - a
> bugfix relating to the fact that automount might mount a filesystem as
> you chdir() into the directory.  This definitely affects users of
> automount on Solaris, and may affect users of similar software on
> other versions of Unix.

I just tested it on a Solaris 10 box here. Unfortunately there seems to
be a problem:

./find: /foo/censored changed during execution of ./find (old device number 
74711044, new device number 74448942, filesystem type is nfs) [ref 807]

I don't know why the filesystem type is nfs here, it is under control of
the automounter. The mntent is:

foo:/export/censored   /foo/censored nfs 
nosuid,retry=6,timeo=50,xattr,dev=470002e       1101049221

I cannot (yet) figure out when and how it decides to use "nfs" instead
of "autofs"

regarsd
john