On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 09:40:46AM +0100, steve wrote: > Question. What does the following mean? > > # find /dev -follow -printf "" > find: '/dev/fd/4': No such file or directory
This is funny. At first I thought I could reproduce it by tricking `find' into following a broken symlink, but with a "static" setup I couldn't. Still, /dev/fd is bound to be highly dynamic: it's a link to /proc/self/fd, i.e. a view on the current process's open file descriptors. It's quite probable that `find' checks some directory entry, and at the time it tries to do something with it, it has disappeared, leading to that error message. Cheers - t
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