On 7/18/07, Coleman, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,I noticed a sort of failure mode while diagnosing an odd problem with our NFS server. Specifically, it looks like find is using 'open("..")' to ascend the directory tree, but this may fail, in which case find seems to emit a "permission denied" and abort. I think a normal user would assume that this error message just means that the particular directory cannot be visited, but that things are otherwise fine. In fact it appears that find completely gives up in this case, therefore not searching the rest of the tree (even though it could in principle do so without error). If this is so, it seems like the error message should state this clearly. For example: "backtrack failed--find aborted!" or some such, to indicate that the results of the run are fairly meaningless. I didn't have time to look through the source at length, so it's possible that I'm misunderstanding what's going on.
I also don't have time to consider this in detail right now, but if you would like to log a bug at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils, that will make sure I don't forget it. Thanks, James. _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
