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Re: ./.. changed during execution of find
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 04:22:15PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On May 14 09:35, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>>The case reported on the list is probably due to a change in chdir.
>>find scans / and chdir bin. /bin is c:/cygwin/bin, but the canonical
>>Posix name of that directory (longest prefix match) is /usr/bin.
>>Eventually find chdir .. and finds itself in /usr, not in /
>>
>>Fixing that means stop using mount_info->conv_to_posix and going back
>>to normalize_posix_path.
>
>Right. I'm just surprised how easily the situation would have been
>reproducible and we both failed to reproduce it. We should give back
>at least one gold star.
Take one from me, too. I suspect that the current code was specifically
there to deal with that specific problem. And, guess who wrote it?
cgf