On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:39:43 PST Matthew Jacob <m...@feral.com> wrote:
> can you report out the actual command line you're using and what release
> it's from?
>
> On 11/29/2010 12:08 PM, Denise H. G. wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I found that, while searching for empty directories, find(1) will not
> > continue if it encounters a dir it can't enter (e.g. no privilege). I
> > don't know if it's so designed... I've checked NetBSD and OpenBSD's
> > implementations (almost identical to that of FreeBSD's). And they behave
> > the same way as FreeBSD's find(1) does under the circumstance.
> >
> > I'm wondering if this is a bug or not.
This looks like a long standing bug:
% mkdir -p a/{b,c}/d/e/f
% find a -empty
% chmod 000 a/b/d/ef
% find a -empty
The fix:
% cd /usr/src/usr.bin/find
% svn diff
Index: function.c
===================================================================
--- function.c (revision 212707)
+++ function.c (working copy)
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@
empty = 1;
dir = opendir(entry->fts_accpath);
if (dir == NULL)
- err(1, "%s", entry->fts_accpath);
+ return 0;
for (dp = readdir(dir); dp; dp = readdir(dir))
if (dp->d_name[0] != '.' ||
(dp->d_name[1] != '\0' &&
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