Re: find: .: Value too large for defined data type

[James Youngman]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:55:36PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> With findutils-4.1.20 I've had a report of this error:
> 
> find: .: Value too large for defined data type
> 
> Here is the bug report:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=141167

Thanks.  Compare http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=8455


> It seems that the opendir/readdir/closedir loop in savedir.c is
> getting errno set to EOVERFLOW on return from one of the readdir()
> calls.  

I see.  That's useful information, thanks.  The POSIX standard says :-

|| The readdir() function shall fail if:
|| 
|| [EOVERFLOW] 
||    One of the values in the structure to be returned cannot be
||    represented correctly.


Hence it appears that the directory contains at least one file whose
basename exceeds NAME_MAX characters.  NAME_MAX is 255 (in
/usr/include/linux/limits.h) on the system I'm using at the moment.
Could you ask the person submitting the bug report to verify this.


> Should find(1) handle this better?

Probably, but how?  By ignoring the entire affected directory?

James.