Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?

[James Youngman]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 05:59:38AM +1100, Paul Szabo wrote:

> I think find should never cause an automount to "trigger" and cause it to
> be mounted. It is OK to traverse if it was mounted to start with; is surely
> not OK to traverse if it wasn't already mounted. Maybe your problem is
> sidestepped by this principle?

Possibly, but I think that would be expensive to implement (i.e. slow
when running) and perhaps not POSIX compliant.

James.