Re: find acting weird

[Юрий Пухальский]

Ok, i think the timeout has expired and i shall not be replied.
To hell with standards, implementation bugs and stuff. At least don't
you think that informational message is misleading?

2010/5/27 Юрий Пухальский <address@hidden>:
> 2010/5/26 Eric Blake <address@hidden>:
>> On 05/26/2010 09:53 AM, Юрий Пухальский wrote:
>>> So goes the standard. It's not clear (for me) what means "all entries
>>> in a directory". In this case it depends on whether we consider it
>>> before or after -exec.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> You will not get the error if you tell find to do a depth-first search:
>>>>
>>>> find . -depth -name a -exec rm -rf {} \;
>>> Yes, or using the + works. But the question is whether this behaviour
>>> is correct. I've tried it on HP-UX:
>>> mk2HPX04:/build/mk2HPX04/tmp>mkdir -p a/b
>>> mk2HPX04:/build/mk2HPX04/tmp>find . -name a -exec rm -rf {} \;
>>> mk2HPX04:/build/mk2HPX04/tmp>
>>
>> Bug in HP-UX - they are not detecting a valid error case of the
>> directory disappearing out from underneath the two-stage traversal, due
>> to the -exec action.
>>
>>>
>>> and on AIX:
>>> mk2AIX03:/build/mk2AIX03/tmp>mkdir -p a/b
>>> mk2AIX03:/build/mk2AIX03/tmp>find . -name a -exec rm -rf {} \;
>>> find: 0652-081 cannot change directory to </build/mk2AIX03/tmp/a>:
>>>   : A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
>>> mk2AIX03:/build/mk2AIX03/tmp>
>>
>> Same behavior as GNU findutils, as required by POSIX.
> Can You please tell where it's required? I'm using
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/find.html and
> see nothing about the traversal algorithm.
> I can only quote this: "If a -depth primary is not specified, all
> entries in a directory shall be acted on after the directory itself."
> It can be read either as "all entries in a directory, that are present
> after -exec" or "all entries in a directory, that were present before
> -exec".
>
> --
> «The good thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.»
>



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