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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:50:45 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Problems with "find" 4.2.27
From: dance AT rhythmicharmony DOT com
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The remote file system is ext3.  Upgrading findutils fixed the problem.

Thank you for your time and assistance.


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> According to dance AT rhythmicharmony DOT com on 8/11/2006 5:52 PM:
>> I've been having problems with "find", and it's hard to search the
>> entire
>> mailing list for "find" since it's such a common word.  I don't know
>> what
>> cygwin package "find" comes in, so I can't search for that.
>
> cygcheck -p find.exe shows it is part of findutils.
>
>>
>> You'll notice that it showed a directory named 90s/no and a directory
>> named 70s with no files in them.
>
> Try upgrading to findutils 4.3.0.  I suspect the leaf optimization is
> getting told a bad link count for the remote directories, and is then
> assuming it does not need to stat files to traverse into subdirectories.
> By upgrading, you will be using a newer algorithm in find that is less
> confused by these situations.
>
>> If I try the same command from my Fedora 5 box, it complains that
>> //192.168.200.9/public isn't a valid directory.
>
> That's because // notation is only special on cygwin.  POSIX allows it to
> be special, but most other Unix vendors treat it as synonymous with /.
>
>>
>> If I mount the network on my windows XP machine, and use the cygwin find
>> on the mounted drive, it has the same problem.
>
> Mounting on cygwin doesn't change the fact that the drive is remote, and
> that cygwin doesn't always know how to calculate link count for remote
> drives.  By the way, what type of filesystem is this?  Also, what version
> of cygwin are you using, as cygwin 1.5.21 contains code to make link count
> more reliable.  If you had followed directions,
>
>> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>
> and sent the text output of `cygcheck -svr' as an attachment, we could
> have helped you better.
>
> - --
> Life is short - so eat dessert first!
>
> Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
> volunteer cygwin findutils maintainer
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