[bug #20561] find should complain more clearly on backtrack failure and abort

[Michael Coleman]

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                 Summary: find should complain more clearly on backtrack
failure and abort
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: mkc
            Submitted on: Monday 07/23/2007 at 15:31
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.2.25
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

At least in find 4.2.25, if find attempts to backtrack (apparently by doing a
chdir("..")) and that backtrack fails, find essentially aborts.  The error
message given, though, does not clearly indicated that this is happening--it
looks like the simple permission error (warning) that is given when find
cannot enter a directory.  Many users would probably find this misleading.




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