X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:51:05 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Avoid duplicate names in /proc/registry (which may crash find) ? Message-ID: <20081202145105.GO12905@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4934461E.5040708@t-online.de> <20081202120840.GM12905@calimero.vinschen.de> <493546D3.7060808@byu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <493546D3.7060808@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Dec 2 07:31, Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/2/2008 5:08 AM: > > - If find crashes in this situation, isn't this a bug in find which > > should be fixed in find? > > No. The problem is that readdir() is returning the same name twice, once > for a directory and once for a file. Even without d_type support, this > means when you go to stat() that name, you get the same answer twice Right, but that doesn't mean find should crash. What about a graceful solution to an obvious problem in the underlying FS? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/