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Article #822Re: find fails
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Date: Sat, 06 Aug 1988 09:58
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 1988 09:58
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From article <1235@unisoft.UUCP>, by asa@unisoft.UUCP (Asa Romberger): > In article <3920006@hpirs.HP.COM> banton@hpirs.HP.COM (Butch Anton) writes: >>rich@jolnet.UUCP (Rich Andrews) writes: >> >>> When I am in /usr/lib and execute a find command such as >>> "find . -print" it gets to /usr/lib/uucp and then it fails >>> with a stat() failed /usr/lib/uucp/cd_text. > > I have seen this sort of behaviour also. For me it has always been one simple > thing. It turns out the find does not keep track of full path names of > directories that it is searching. It changes down into a new directory and > then expects to be able to change back to the higher directory by doing a > cd .. Checking source, I find that this is true. > [...various causes deleted] It will also cause problems on NCR TOWER systems using 'rmount'ed directories. Please note that the tower 'rmount' is basically a directory->directory symbolic link; no network stuff is involved. The general rule is: if cd .. won't get you back to EXACTLY where you came from, you have problems with find.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!lsuc!attcan!sobeco!LOGIN From: LOGIN@sobeco.UUCP (LOGIN) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: find fails Message-ID: <321@sobeco.UUCP> Date: 6 Aug 88 09:58:38 GMT References: <1235@unisoft.UUCP> Organization: Groupe SOBECO (Montreal Canada) Lines: 26