[bug #34976] find: Failed to save working directory in order to [...]: Too many open files

[Scott Kalter]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #34976 (project findutils):

Seems December is the month for running into this problem.

On a CentOS system with:

yum list installed | grep findutils
findutils.x86_64                  1:4.4.2-6.el6             @base/$releasver

To reproduce easily, do the following:

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cd /tmp
mkdir src
mkdir dest
for i in {1..1500}
do
   touch /tmp/src/t$i
done
find /tmp/src -type f -execdir mv '{}' /tmp/dest ;
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This should produce something like:

mv: error while loading shared libraries: libselinux.so.1: cannot open shared
object file: Error 24
find: Failed to save working directory in order to run a command on `t1424':
Too many open files

This assumes your ulimit isn't set artificially high:

ulimit -n
1024

I've seen "find -execdir" work with a very large number of files in other
environments.  E.g., it works on an ubuntu system with:

 dpkg-query -l findutils

ii  findutils            4.4.2-4ubuntu1       utilities for finding
files--find, xargs

Hope this helps...

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