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From: "Kiran Prakash" <kiran__prakash AT hotmail DOT com>
To: "Nicholas Wourms" <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: bug in findutils 4.1.7-4 (updatedb, find)
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:59:25 +0530
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Another little piece of info about this bug.
The error in find & updatedb (when it occurs) occurs only in the current
directory.

$cd /foo
$updatedb
/usr/bin/find: /foo/.. changed during execution of /usr/bin/find

Kiran Prakash

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicholas Wourms" <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com>
To: "Kiran Prakash" <kiran__prakash AT hotmail DOT com>; <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: bug in findutils 4.1.7-4 (updatedb, find)


> --- Kiran Prakash <kiran__prakash AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
> > I use win98SE with a FAT32 filesystem.
> >
> > on typing updatedb, the following error occurs.
> >
> > /usr/bin/find: /home/XXXX/.. changed during execution of
> > /usr/bin/find
> >
> > running find in $HOME causes no errors.
> >
> > also find must also be bugged, because running find in /e/cygwin
> > (my setup
> > directory)
> > causes:
> >
> > .
> > ./setup.exe
> > ....
> > find: /e/Cygwin/.. changed during execution of find
> >
> > Any ideas where this problem might be coming from ?
>
> I don't know, but it started happening sometime between cygwin 1.3.11
> and 1.3.12.  I'm running WinME on a FAT32 as well.  For those who are
> going to ask it, Yes I have a virus scanner but it is configured to
> ignore the Cygwin directory tree.  I'm not sure what the best way to
> go about debugging this, as an strace would inundate the user with
> too much information.  So I suppose we should ask if anyone else is
> having the same problem on Win9X/ME...
>
> Cheers,
> Nicholas
>
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