RE: find should complain more clearly on backtrack failure and abort

[Coleman, Michael]

Eric,

It's version 4.2.25.  So, maybe this wouldn't occur in 4.3.x.

Considered more broadly, I guess my suggestion would be that 'find'
should make a different (more urgent) sound if it has to abort its
traversal than if it is merely skipping a directory because it can't
enter.

I will attempt to log a bug on this, per James's request.

Regards,
Mike



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Blake [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 8:31 AM
> To: James Youngman
> Cc: Coleman, Michael; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: find should complain more clearly on backtrack 
> failure and abort
> 
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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,
> >>
> >> 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.
> 
> - --
> Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
> 
> Eric Blake             address@hidden
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