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Re: Infinite Recursion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Magnus Ahltorp)
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Subject: Re: Infinite Recursion
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From: Magnus Ahltorp <map@stacken.kth.se>
Date: 03 Nov 1998 04:20:00 +0100
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> I've been lurking mostly, but there's one thing I'd like to see.
> The UNIX/POSIX find has flags to stop at a device boundary. For
> AFS, special hacks were often made to GNU find to simulate this
> feature with volumes. (Yes, I know that you can also get this by
> using -exec, too!)
> Actually, I'm wondering what DFS did in this case? (Don't have
> access to a system anymore). But, I think it behaved correctly.
> I think it would be nice for the ARLA client to do this, rather than
> have to go fix the utilities.
I agree. It would be nice (volume boundaries are the way to go), I
have no idea on how they have implemented this. It's possible to
change device numbers at each volume boundary, but I don't know if
that is a good solution (sounds like a hairy thing to do, besides,
linux support would break).
Ideas are welcome.
/Magnus
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