[bug #15384] find misbehaves when parent directory is not readable

[Dmitry V. Levin]

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                 Summary: find misbehaves when parent directory is not
readable
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: ldv
            Submitted on: Thu 01/05/06 at 19:53
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wrong result
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 4.2.27
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

When parent directory of a given path is not readable, find refuses to work. 
Here is a real world example:

$ dirname $TMPDIR
/tmp/.private
$ find $TMPDIR
find: /tmp/.private: Permission denied





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Date: Thu 01/05/06 at 19:53  Name:
findutils-4.2.27-alt-find-testsuite-parent.patch  Size: 1.49KB   By: ldv
patch with testcase
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?item_id=15384&item_file_id=3249>

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