Subject: find bug?
From: [email-masked] (Brian R. Toonen)

27 Oct 1998 09:21:32 -0800
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I've discovered what I believe to be a bug in find.  When searching for file of a particular name, find does not recurse into directories that have the same name as a directory earlier in the hierarchy.  Enclosed below is an example of it not finding the file 'config' in Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus.  Since this works correctly on all of the variants of UNIX, I believe the bug is specific to the cygwin port of find or the cygwin library.

Note: in a real world scenario, this bug results in autoreconf not updating the configure file in Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus.

--brian

$ mkdir Communications
$ mkdir Communications/nexus
$ mkdir Communications/nexus/libraries
$ mkdir Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus
$ mkdir Communications/nexus/libraries/mp
$ mkdir Communications/nexus/libraries/duct
$ echo "config" > Communications/config
$ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/config
$ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/libraries/config
$ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus/config
$ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/libraries/mp/config
$ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/libraries/duct/config
$ find Communications -name config -print
Communications/config
Communications/nexus/config
Communications/nexus/libraries/config
Communications/nexus/libraries/duct/config
Communications/nexus/libraries/mp/config
$ find Communications -type d -print
Communications
Communications/nexus
Communications/nexus/libraries
Communications/nexus/libraries/duct
Communications/nexus/libraries/mp
Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus
$ ls Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus/config
Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus/config
$

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