[bug #26641] Wrong directory hard link count message on automounted directory.

[Phil Dumont]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #26641 (project findutils):

find seems to be already doing *something* to determine that the st_link
count is wrong -- that's what leads to the printing of the warning and the
automatic turning on of the -noleaf option, yes?.  All I'm saying is, wherever
it is that find does:

  printf("WARNING: Hard link count is wrong...");
  turn_on_noleaf();

change it to

  fstat(dirfd, &new_stat_buf);
  if (stat_buf.st_dev != new_stat_buf.st_dev)
    /* probably an automount happened; just update stat info */
    stat_buf = new_stat_buf;
  else {
    printf("WARNING: Hard link count is wrong...");
    turn_on_noleaf();
  }

The performance implications should be minimal, because the extra stat is
only ever done whenever the -noleaf evasive action would have been taken,
which is seldom.

Again, I haven't read the code (still), so I apologize if this is naive.

  


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