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Re: Bug#489046: findutils: find -execdir + doesn't work anymore


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Bug#489046: findutils: find -execdir + doesn't work anymore
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:21:50 -0600
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According to Adam Borowski on 3/31/2009 1:40 AM:
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?19593
> 
> Instead of tweaking the docs -- or perhaps in addition to -- let's think how
> to fix the behaviour.  What about doing a dup() on the directory, and
> comparing the paths once the next match is found?  That would have a side
> effect of delaying execution if there's no match for a long time, but I
> think that's still much better than doing just one file.

Doing a dup() is counterproductive.  It puts increased pressure on the
number of open file descriptors, particularly if your hierarchy is deep,
but we don't want to trigger EMFILE failures.  Additionally, it triggers
bugs in some network filesystems, which report a cached 32-bit inode
value; this value is consistent when used with locality of reference, but
when stored over a long period of time with a large number of file
traversals in between, the cache recycles, and the same file/directory can
appear with a different inode.  You can search the gnulib mail archives
for more details about how fts had to be recoded to avoid triggering this
bug, and the impact that it had on coreutils.

The real fix has to be an interface change to gnulib's fts to make it
obvious when a directory is changing, in order to make it easier for find
to group multiple files found from a single directory.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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