Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?

[James Youngman]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 03:23:48PM +1100, Tim Nelson wrote:

> >What we need to do - and what we do do - is this -
> >
> >$tmp = <base name of subdirectory>;
> 
>       According to the description by Steve Revilak which was sent 
> through, if you at this point do:
> 
> $tmp = $tmp + '.';
> 
>       ...then that will fix the problem.  So instead of statting eg. 
> "/usr/local/bin", you'll be statting "/usr/local/bin/." (note the dot in 
> the second one).

It's an interesting idea.  However, the code we have now in
findutils-4.2.8 works, and I'm reluctant to change this again unless
we find there's a problem.

Regards,
James.