On Oct 16 07:21, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Corinna Vinschen on 10/16/2006 7:14 AM: > > for instance, find(1) traverses directory trees by chdir'ing into > > directories before listing them. So even with this patch, find(1) is > > still not a good candidate for backing up directory trees in a situation > > as you describe above. tar(1) doesn't seem to have this problem, > > though. > > Which version of find? find 4.3.0 switched over to gnulib's fts > implementation, which, if openat() and friends were to be implemented, is
It's with find 4.3.0. It just doesn't traverse into a directory which it has no permissions for. Since reading the directory works usually, I concluded that the failing chdir (see an strace) is the culprit. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/