URL:
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Summary: find should complain more clearly on backtrack
failure and abort
Project: findutils
Submitted by: mkc
Submitted on: Monday 07/23/2007 at 15:31
Category: find
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: 4.2.25
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
At least in find 4.2.25, if find attempts to backtrack (apparently by doing a
chdir("..")) and that backtrack fails, find essentially aborts. The error
message given, though, does not clearly indicated that this is happening--it
looks like the simple permission error (warning) that is given when find
cannot enter a directory. Many users would probably find this misleading.
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