[37442] in bugtraq
Re: Changes to the filesystem while find is running - comments?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dmitry V. Levin)
Mon Nov 22 17:21:33 2004
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 21:33:14 +0300
From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
To: Martin Buchholz <Martin.Buchholz@Sun.COM>
Cc: James Youngman <bugtraq@excession.spiral-arm.org>, bug-findutils@gnu.org,
parimiv@deshaw.com, srevilak@speakeasy.net, bugtraq@securityfocus.com,
levon@movementarian.org
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Hi,
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:05:04AM -0800, Martin Buchholz wrote:
[...]
> If we have fchdir, I see find as maintaining a stack of
> file descriptors to directories that have been chdir'ed into.
[...]
> 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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