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Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?
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John Levon |
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Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? |
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Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:23:54 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.3.25i |
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:05:04AM -0800, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> The guarantee `find' makes that symlinks are not followed is
> an important one, for the sanity of users, especially sysadmins.
With -exec, it's not very useful since any -exec action necessarily
is passed the full path, leaving that script open to the race again.
As James pointed out before, something like FreeBSD's -execdir option is
really necessary (fchdir() into the directory before -exec).
regards
john
- Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, James Youngman, 2004/11/22
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Martin Buchholz, 2004/11/22
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?,
John Levon <=
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Dmitry V. Levin, 2004/11/22
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Dmitry V. Levin, 2004/11/22
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, James Youngman, 2004/11/22
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Martin Buchholz, 2004/11/22
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, James Youngman, 2004/11/23
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Martin Buchholz, 2004/11/23
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, James Youngman, 2004/11/23
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Martin Buchholz, 2004/11/23
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Ognyan Kulev, 2004/11/24
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, James Youngman, 2004/11/24