Wolfgang Jährling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Moritz told me that find uses an optimization that causes it to ignore
> some directories in Shadowfs: The "struct stat" for a directory contains
> the number of links to the directory, which also tells us the number of
> subdirectories, as we have a ".." link from each subdir plus two other
> links ("." and the link to it in its parent directory). Thus, if find
> has processed st_nlink-2 subdirs, it assumes there are no more. And
> Shadowfs simply returned the struct stat for one of its underlying
> directories.
This is a real bug in shadowfs.
Hurd directory servers are required to provide the correct st_nlink
value, which is always the number of subdirs, plus two.
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