[bug #29949] find -execdr does not change working directory

[Andreas Metzler]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29949>

                 Summary: find -execdr does not change working directory
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: ametzler
            Submitted on: So 23 Mai 2010 18:01:09 CEST
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wrong result
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Raja R Harinath
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.5.9
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

Hello,

this is http://bugs.debian.org/582717 reported by Raja R Harinath
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Running the following fragment

d=$(mktemp -d); mkdir -p $d/{foo,bar,baz}/bug; find $d -type d -name bug
-print -execdir pwd \;

at a command prompt gives me:

/tmp/tmp.UqsljYxydZ/bar/bug
/tmp/tmp.UqsljYxydZ/bar
/tmp/tmp.UqsljYxydZ/baz/bug
/tmp/tmp.UqsljYxydZ/bar
/tmp/tmp.UqsljYxydZ/foo/bug
/tmp/tmp.UqsljYxydZ/bar

The expected output, which is correctly obtained with version 4.4.2-1 from
testing is something like:

/tmp/tmp.5nfIU7cjDH/bar/bug
/tmp/tmp.5nfIU7cjDH/bar
/tmp/tmp.5nfIU7cjDH/baz/bug
/tmp/tmp.5nfIU7cjDH/baz
/tmp/tmp.5nfIU7cjDH/foo/bug
/tmp/tmp.5nfIU7cjDH/foo
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Note how pwd continues to stay at /tmp/.../bar.

I have confirmed the behavior, it also affects oldfind. This is a new bug,
4.5.8 behaves correctly.

cu andreas




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