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Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Nov 22 2004 10:27AM James Youngman (bugtraq excession spiral-arm org) (1 replies) Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Nov 22 2004 06:05PM Martin Buchholz (Martin Buchholz Sun COM) (2 replies) Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Nov 22 2004 11:51PM James Youngman (bugtraq excession spiral-arm org) (3 replies) Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Nov 24 2004 07:51AM Casper Dik Sun COM (2 replies) Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Nov 24 2004 05:25PM Martin Buchholz (Martin Buchholz Sun COM) (1 replies) Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Nov 24 2004 05:29PM Casper Dik Sun COM Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Nov 24 2004 12:15PM James Youngman (bugtraq excession spiral-arm org) Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Nov 24 2004 05:24AM devnull Rodents Montreal QC CA Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Nov 23 2004 02:05AM Martin Buchholz (Martin Buchholz Sun COM) (1 replies) Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Nov 23 2004 09:17AM James Youngman (bugtraq excession spiral-arm org) (1 replies) Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments? Nov 23 2004 05:59PM Martin Buchholz (Martin Buchholz Sun COM) |
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:05:04AM -0800, Martin Buchholz wrote:
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> If we have fchdir, I see find as maintaining a stack of
> file descriptors to directories that have been chdir'ed into.
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> In general, use fchdir and fstat whenever possible.
find utility implementation should not base entirely on stack of file
descriptors, due to open file descriptors limits.
Same issues arise with fts(3)/ftw(3) implementations and its clones.
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