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Re: bug found from ls command
From: |
James Youngman |
Subject: |
Re: bug found from ls command |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:01:27 +0100 |
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:02 AM, James Youngman<address@hidden> wrote:
> [+bug-findutils]
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:36 PM, PG<address@hidden> wrote:
>> ah, great!
>>
>> thank you for the info. That helps me understand a lot. Now I see why find
>> fails. And perhaps it's not worth the extra computation time required to,
>> upon failure of cd'ing into the directory, trying to list it.
>
> It probably should, if it is readable. But I don't think any versions
> of GNU find will actually do this.
OpenSolaris find doesn't either:
flare:~/tmp$ find ft/tmp -ls
347455 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 james 1001 4096 Jul 8 09:54 ft/tmp
347457 4 drw-r--r-- 2 james 1001 4096 Jul 8 09:54
ft/tmp/nonexecutable
find: cannot read dir ft/tmp/nonexecutable/: Permission denied
flare:~/tmp$ ls -l ft/tmp/nonexecutable
ft/tmp/nonexecutable/foo: Permission denied
total 0
$ find ft -print
ft
ft/tmp
ft/tmp/nonexecutable
find: cannot read dir ft/tmp/nonexecutable/: Permission denied
flare:~/tmp$ uname -a
SunOS flare.spiral-arm.org 5.11 snv_101b i86pc i386 i86xpv
James.