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Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?
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Paul Szabo |
Subject: |
Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? |
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Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:39:56 +1100 (EST) |
James,
You asked on bugtraq:
> GNU find does a sanity check before and after calling chdir(). It
> stats the directory it's about to move into, and stats "." after
> chdir() succeeds. It then compares the device numbers and inode
> numbers returned by he two stat() calls. This is done in a function
> called wd_sanity_check(). If these are different, find prints an
> error and exits fatally (in versions up to and including GNU findutils
> 4.2.5.
> ...
> [ Shenanigans with automounter upset wd_sanity_check() ]
> As of findutils 4.2.6/4.2.7, find will read /etc/mtab ...
> [ Shenanigans in Solaris automounter upset mtab check ]
> ... Hence my question is :-
> Is it worthwhile at all to perform this "sanity check" or is it of
> insufficient benefit?
> I'd be grateful for your thoughts.
What I would like to see implemented (in some messy pseudo-code, starting
in parent directory):
PARENT=stat(".");
SUBDIR=stat("subdir");
chdir("subdir");
DOT=stat(".");
if (SUBDIR != DOT) {
Print warning message
}
else {
Go on with find (recurse)
}
chdir("..");
DOT=stat(".");
if (PARENT != DOT) {
Print message
Exit with fatal error
}
Do not descend into "dodgy" directories, but back out of them; exit fatally
if you cannot get back to solid ground.
Is this doable?
Cheers,
Paul Szabo - address@hidden http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney 2006 Australia
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, (continued)
Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Tim Nelson, 2004/11/23
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Steve Revilak, 2004/11/23
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Tim Nelson, 2004/11/24
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, James Youngman, 2004/11/25
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Tim Nelson, 2004/11/25
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, James Youngman, 2004/11/26
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Martin Buchholz, 2004/11/26
- Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Tim Nelson, 2004/11/29
Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?,
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Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Paul Szabo, 2004/11/22
Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Paul Szabo, 2004/11/23
Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?, Paul Szabo, 2004/11/23