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Re: find should complain more clearly on backtrack failure and abort
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Eric Blake |
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Re: find should complain more clearly on backtrack failure and abort |
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Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:31:11 -0600 |
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According to James Youngman on 7/21/2007 7:12 AM:
> On 7/18/07, Coleman, Michael <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> I noticed a sort of failure mode while diagnosing an odd problem with
>> our NFS server. Specifically, it looks like find is using
>> 'open("..")' to ascend the directory tree, but this may fail, in which
>> case find seems to emit a "permission denied" and abort.
Were you using find 4.2.x or 4.3.x? The two versions use a different
algorithm for traversing directories (home-grown vs. fts()), so we need to
know which version had the problems.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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