Re: Problem with find + AFS + acl="l"

[Daniel Richard G.]

On Wed, 2006 Nov 01 18:42:34 +0000, James Youngman wrote:
> 
> But my question is, does AFS guanrantee that readdir() will return
> them in that order?

It does appear that "." and ".." come first consistently, but is this
really necessary? Ext3 itself doesn't do this.

> >It'll know from the get-go if an entry is a subdirectory or not, so no
> >problem there.
> 
> But I believe that only works if find has a way of knowing (without
> stat()ing all the mount points) if a directory is in AFS or not.

There isn't a good way of going from some arbitrary path to a filesystem
type? (I'm not very familiar with this part of the POSIX API, alas.)

If not, it might be sufficient to check if the directory's canonical
path is under /afs. (You're never going to have AFS mounted on e.g. /usr
or /mnt/afs.)

> >What I also wanted to suggest was more graceful handling of the "we
> >really can't tell what this entry is" case, by adding a "-type u" test.
> 
> Yes, that's a good idea.  Could you log this as a separate bug on
> Savannah? (svannah.gnu.org).    The same thing could also be useful
> for entries in directories which allow r but not x.

Will do!


--Daniel


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