URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?20561>
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 Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: 4.2.25 Fixed Release: None _______________________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?20561> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list Bug-findutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils