On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 04:50:23PM +0300, Vladimir Zolotykh wrote: > Just out of curiosity, why > > sudo find /proc -group backup -print > > always terminates with > > find: /proc/N/fd/4: No such file or directory > > where N is always a new number ? > > [Sarge, GNU/Linux]
I assume you know that /proc is a synthetic filesystem containing system information, and /proc/N/fd is a directory containing an entry for each open file descriptor for process 'N'... At a guess, I would say that 'N' is the process id of the 'find' process itself (and hence will be different each time it is run), and file descriptor 4 was probably open to read the content of the '/proc/N/fd' directory, but closed (and hence the file disappeard) when it attempted to stat it to see if the group matched.. Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
