From: newsham AT aloha DOT net (Tim Newsham)
Subject: Re: bug in find
24 Jan 1997 00:01:35 -0800
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> uname -a:
>   CYGWIN32/NT OMEGA 4.0 17.3 i686
> 
> It looks like find has a bug.  Consider the following:
> 
>   windows$ find -name '*.c' >& out; cat out
>   find: ./out: Permission denied
> 
> The find command has trouble with open files it seems.

I've narrowed the problem down some more.  It seems
that lstat() cannot stat an open file.  Test case:
    
    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <sys/stat.h>

    main()
    {
        int res;
        struct stat buf;

        res = lstat("./file", &buf);
        if(res == -1)
            perror("stat");
        printf("done\n");
    }

    % gcc test.c
    % a.out
    done
    % a.out >& file
    % cat file
    stat: Permission denied
    done
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