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Date:	Sat, 15 May 2004 10:58:51 -0400
From:	"Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: updatedb error
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On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 02:25:23PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> With the latest Cygwin snapshot (and probably since quite a few
> previous versions) I'm expecting the dreaded "/usr/bin/find: ./..
> changed during execution of /usr/bin/find" error again when running
> updatedb. I could confirm this on three fully patched Windows XP
> machines running the latest Cygwin updates.
> 
> I usually run "updatedb" via cron with stderr redirected to /dev/null
> so I cannot tell when this started to happen or who is the culprit
> (Windows, cygwin1.dll, bash/zsh, updatedb, ...).
> 
> Even 'updatedb --prunepaths="/cygdrive"' (which was advised in the
> mailing list archives) didn't help.
> 
> Anyone with a solution or some hints/explanation?

If you compile your own cygwin, please try the patch in
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2004-q2/msg00112.html

Pierre

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