I'll need more details if you expect me to help resolve that crash. A stackdump is nearly useless without compiled symbols to go along it - what was your exact command line? What version of find?
It wasn't meant to be a bug report for find(1), just a note of why I'd stopped investigating it. I don't know why I pasted the stacktrace. Old habits, I guess. Here's the minimum command line which shows the original problem of trying directories which should be pruned (taken from updatedb output originally): % /usr/bin/find /cygdrive/c -regex '/cygdrive/c/System.Volume.Information' -prune -o -print > test /usr/bin/find: could not change to directory /cygdrive/c/System Volume Information: Permission denied Shorter regexps, like '/cygdrive/c/Sys.*', also fail to match. Adding -D tree causes the segfault (and doesn't show helpful information for this problem anyhow, it turns out): % /usr/bin/find -D tree /cyg.... It's findutils 4.3.2, the latest available cygwin package. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/