[bug #47261] find produces two different results for the same command

[anonymous]

URL:
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                 Summary: find produces two different results for the same
command
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Thu 25 Feb 2016 07:24:54 PM UTC
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wrong result
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Len Schulwitz
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.4.2
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

On a Raspberry Pi B+ running Raspbian jessie, I run this command: "sudo find /
-iname 'firefox_binary.py'" to find a file I know exists.  The first time I
run it, find exits without any errors, and 0 results.  The second time I run
it, only seconds later, find locates the file.  Here is a video documenting
the behavior: youtube.com/watch?v=qDB_50RwWa8  In addition, I opened this up
as a question at
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/265571/how-is-it-that-the-same-find-command-can-give-two-different-results?noredirect=1#comment459672_265571
and it seems to have stumped all the unix gurus on there, who recommended that
I submit a bug report.  Here's the strace of the first run (fails):
http://lenschulwitz.com/find1.txt and the strace of the second run (succeeds):
http://lenschulwitz.com/find2.txt




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