I also reviewed the upstream patch that purports to resolve the issue (7dc7006). This fix is contained within the 4.5.9 and newer versions of findutils. That's where the good news ends. The code portion of that single commit is 817 lines long. It doesn't apply cleanly, and it appears to have some significant dependencies on earlier commits.
Unfortunately backportting the fix into even wily sources is proving difficult, and may not be acceptable for a stable release. Normally in this case we would integrate the entire upstream sources into our development series (xenial), and then pursue package copy into the older series. However, 4.5.9 and newer is currently part of the findutils alpha branch, and as such wouldn't be considered acceptable for inclusion in even our development releases. That being said fedora, opensuse, and centos all release with 4.5 of findutils, so we may have to consider doing the same. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to findutils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1347788 Title: find crashed when current working directory is not readable and -exec or -execdir used Status in findutils package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: bug is similar to https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?15384 but for current directory (when it not readable or not executable) steps to reproduce DIR=`mktemp -d` cd $DIR mkdir -p 1/1 2 cd 2 find $DIR/1 -type d -exec echo {} \; find $DIR/1 -type d -execdir echo {} \; ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: findutils 4.4.2-7 Uname: Linux 3.15.4-031504-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Wed Jul 23 20:17:19 2014 Dependencies: gcc-4.9-base 4.9-20140406-0ubuntu1 libc6 2.19-0ubuntu6 libgcc1 1:4.9-20140406-0ubuntu1 multiarch-support 2.19-0ubuntu6 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-24 (89 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417) SourcePackage: findutils UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) --- ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Dependencies: gcc-4.9-base 4.9-20140406-0ubuntu1 libc6 2.19-0ubuntu6 libgcc1 1:4.9-20140406-0ubuntu1 multiarch-support 2.19-0ubuntu6 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-24 (89 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417) Package: findutils 4.4.2-7 PackageArchitecture: amd64 Tags: trusty Uname: Linux 3.15.4-031504-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo _MarkForUpload: True To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/findutils/+bug/1347788/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp